Bugcrowd Inc. has grown from a “napkin moment” sketched out by the founder on an airplane flight 11 years ago to now include an expanding ecosystem of bug bounty programs and, most recently, penetration testing as a service.Last week, the multi-solution, crowdsourced cybersecurity platform announced new capabilities in its Penetration Testing as a Service, or PTaaS. The solution enables customers to purchase, set up and manage a pentest directly online without a lengthy sales process

With business-critical resources more vulnerable than ever, there’s been an equal rise in the popularity of penetration testing.However, given the pen-testing industry’s current pitfalls, Bugcrowd Inc. has responded by taking the entire process online.“Our customers can now go to our website and purchase, configure and deploy a pen test with only a few clicks,”  said Casey Ellis (pictured, right), founder, chairman and chief technology officer of Bugcrowd.”In our view, this starts to democratize access to pen testing. It’s one of those things where the pen testers aren’t the problem; it’s the actual process and how it’s done that is the problem