Casey Ellis


Casey Ellis is an Australian cybersecurity expert, entrepreneur, and speaker based in San Francisco, California. He is known for pioneering the crowdsourced Security-as-a-Service model and has contributed to Federal and State-level elections security policy in the USA. He is often quoted by mainstream media outlets in the United States and Australia.

Career

Casey Ellis began his career as a penetration tester. In 2012, he pioneered the crowdsourced Security-as-a-Service model and launched the first program known as Bugcrowd. After two years, he founded disclose.io, an open-source project for vulnerability disclosure and safe-harbor.
In 2017, Casey Ellis became a mentor for CyRise, a venture accelerator focused on early-stage cybersecurity startups based in Melbourne, Australia. He is also a mentor and advisor for the Australian financial business Startmate.
In 2019, he joined Flirtey which is a Nevada-based drone delivery company and served in their advisory board. In 2020, he became a member of the CTI League, a volunteer group of 1,400 cybersecurity experts from 76 countries around the world working to neutralize all cyber threats looking to exploit the current Covid-19 pandemic.
Casey Ellis has been an active advocate for rights of good-faith cybersecurity research. His speaking engagements including Black Hat USA, RSA Conference, Shmoocon, ENISA Incibe, Usenix ENIGMA, Derbycon, SOURCEConf, AISA, AusCERT etc.