Bugcrowd vs. Metasploit

Bugcrowd is great for bug bounty programs and as a cheaper alternative to a full-blown penetration test. Small to medium-sized companies who are serious about security, but don't have the budget for a $40,000 penetration test, this is a great solution. Bugcrowd isn't going to be able to do much of the white-box penetration testing (code reviews), as they are more suited for grey-box and black-box. A program like this will need at least one dedicated person to work with the moderator, verify findings, and decide on the severity of the finding.

Incentivized

It is easy to use with sufficient documentation on how to use the tools for end users or newbies. Experienced testers will find it easy to customise and configure the test cases. Just wished that I could have taken up a course on using this tool in my study days so that I could had explored more and improved my familiarity with the tool, unlike when working where access and time to explore the other features of the tool is limited

Incentivized

• Having a pool of security researchers helps keep the penetration tests broad, getting the most bang for your buck.
• The integration with Slack makes it easy to keep tabs on the program and when new findings are submitted.
• The interface is pretty simple to use and fairly intuitive.

Incentivized

• Scanning our network for new or existing vulnerable systems.
• Automation of manual tests and exploits to allow what used to be days of effort to be squeezed into hours.
• Metasploit has become an integral part in our validation of new systems before their inclusion in our production network.

Incentivized

• The success of your program highly depends on the moderator that is assigned to your project. A good moderator will continue to find researchers until the quota is full. Less than stellar moderators will send out one invite and sees what sticks.
• Not all researchers are as professional as one might hope. This can ruin the experience.

Incentivized

• Have encountered issues with updating especially after moving from BackTrack to Kali.
• Sometimes it gets a little buggy, but that's a rare occurrence.

Incentivized

We don't use it.

Incentivized

Budget was ultimately the reason we went with Bugcrowd initially. Bugcrowd allowed for us to come up with our own bounty scale to fit out budget. Most other companies had a fixed scale, or the scale was not as flexible as we wanted it. Traditional penetration testing companies were very expensive.

Incentivized

Metasploit is an all around good suite of tools to test and validate potential vulnerabilites. Other tools have bits and pecies such as Nmap, Nessus, Burp Suite, etc. but Metasploit can function in the same way but more.

Incentivized

• We have received some great results for a great price. We've also received some poor results at the same price.
• Bugcrowd is not always recognized as a "real" penetration test, but for the most part, we have not had any problems with customer accepting our reports.
• Overall, Bugcrowd has been an overall good experience, but we have had a poor moderator from time-to-time that has resulted in less than ideal results.

Incentivized

• If you prevent an attack you will save a lot of money.
• There is a free version that has a lot of useful exploits.
• You can run it in an open source OS.

Incentivized