SAN FRANCISCO, May 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bugcrowd, the leader in crowdsourced security, announced today the appointment of Mark Milani as the global head of engineering. A technology executive with more than 25 years of experience leading global software engineering and product management teams, Milani will lead the engineering organization in growing and innovating Bugcrowd’s industry-leading Crowdcontrol™ platform.
“We are thrilled to have Mark onboard the Bugcrowd team,” said Ashish Gupta, CEO, Bugcrowd. “He is an experienced engineering, analytics and business leader in technology spanning across a number of areas in both small and large company environments. His knowledge and skills will be invaluable as we continue to grow our engineering team and innovate on our platform, ensuring the success of security teams and researchers around the globe.”
Based in San Francisco, Milani brings decades of experience across a number of technology areas, from developing solutions deep in the technology stack, to applications and cloud solutions for end users and service organizations. In addition to this diverse set of functional skills, Milani has shown unprecedented commitment to building and developing his teams throughout his career. Prior to Bugcrowd, Milani was senior vice president of product engineering at Actian Corporation, and held multiple leadership positions at Oracle Corporation, including leading engineering for Oracle’s Cloud Services and Platform Technologies teams.
“While I was running cloud services, traditional security methods were not adequately addressing the expanding security risks I was managing,” said Mark Milani, Global Head of Engineering, Bugcrowd. “Bugcrowd’s security platform introduces an important change to existing thinking by bringing the creativity and knowledge of the Crowd directly to organizations to manage their cybersecurity challenges. I’m excited to lead development of a platform that is truly changing the way organizations approach security and to be a part of the Bugcrowd team.”
The crowdsourced model is the future of security -- the industry has seen unprecedented growth this year, across industries, at companies of all sizes. Bugcrowd utilizes a multi-faceted approach starting with a robust platform, coupled with human innovation, leveraging both a large, diverse, and skilled crowd of researchers and our dedicated team of experts. To ensure this model has the most impact, we must marry the art and science of it. With his deep skills and expertise, Milani will help lead our company to the next level in platform capabilities and innovation to deliver compelling results for our customers.
Today, Bugcrowd also announced the company had achieved Soc 2 Type 1 compliance. To read more, visit: www.bugcrowd.com/press
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Bugcrowd is trusted by more of the Fortune 500 than any other crowdsourced security platform. Why? Because people need the increased security of a bug bounty without all the extra work and chaos. Bugcrowd cracked the code on crowdsourced security through rock-solid program management, top trusted researchers and a versatile platform. That’s how our vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty programs find seven times as many critical vulnerabilities as traditional testing. Based in San Francisco, Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Triangle Peak Partners. Bugcrowd. Outhack Them All™. Learn more at www.bugcrowd.com.
Michelle Dailey
Bugcrowd, Inc.
press@bugcrowd.com