SUSTAINABLE CYBER SECURITY POSSIBLE THROUGH COLLABORATION AND TRANSPARENCY

Axis Communication is launching a private bug bounty programme with Bugcrowd, a leader in crowdsourced cyber security. The programme is meant to help strengthen Axis’ commitment to building professional relationships with external security researchers and ethical hackers. It also asserts the company’s goals to identify, patch, and disclose vulnerabilities in Axis OS.

In working with Bugcrowd and its Security Knowledge Platform, Axis will benefit from the company’s cyber security expertise, engineered software-as-a-service, and global network of ethical hackers. Bugcrowd will select and invite its registered researchers with relevant skills and experience, while Axis will make Axis OS-based products available for testing. Researchers who discover vulnerabilities will be eligible to receive a “bounty” cash reward. Axis will then transparently disclose vulnerabilities externally and provide patches to affected Axis OS versions accordingly. n