The practice of obtaining information or input into a Task or Project by enlisting the services of a large number of people, either paid or unpaid, typically via the internet.

The growing prominence of crowdsourcing reflects how effective it is at aligning services with customer needs. Whether you’re ordering an Uber, or browsing Wikipedia, we all now benefit from the “crowd economy” in one way or another.

However, many decision makers still do not realize how valuable crowdsourcing project solutions are to their organization’s operational
strategy.

It’s the next evolutionary step towards solving two of the primary challenges in vulnerability identification and management.

Those are access to a diverse range of expertise and skills to help tackle the
assessment of varied and complex asset types. And the ability to scale, scaling security teams with additional expertise to keep pace with testing requirements as attack surfaces change and grow, is a challenge easily solved with crowdsourcing.