**9.26 Crowdsourcing**

Bugcrowd Inc. uses crowdsourcing, in cooperation with Fortune 500 companies such as MasterCard Incorporation, to identify vulnerabilities that may be used by hackers to infringe on their infrastructure. This is achieved by the use of a machine learning language called a bug bounty program, which enables the engagement of the cybersecurity community, providing them with monetary rewards for their contribution to the resolution of the vulnerabilities [2]. A major advantage associated with the company is the lack of a requirement for evaluation of claims of cyber threats using the crowd-sourced information to determine the areas of security where greater attention should be placed. Crowdsourcing also involves the use of application programming interfaces (APIs), a tool for software development that integrates the sourced data into the current workflows or reports of business security analyses. The process involves the selection of a suitable programming language such as Python and installing it in the organization's system [5]. Professionals in machine code development develop machine codes that enable the recording of information from a number of sources. The output is a list of sources of information containing cybersecurity information that is usable for improving the organization's databases.
