Bangladesh’s First crowdsourced penetration testing platform for hackers

DHAKA, Aug. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi technology firm, Beetles Cyber Security
Ltd, has developed the country’s first crowdsourced penetration testing platform to build
a trusted, hacker-centric approach to protecting an organization’s digital attack surface. In
a press release, Beetles stated that, even though the Beetles platform is a new concept in
terms of Bangladesh, this practice is widely accepted and incorporated in enterprises all
over the modern world. Beetles have found that some of the researchers and ethical
hackers working for top security firms globally, are from Bangladesh. The Beetles
platform has been developed to harness these skills and to provide a hacker’s point-of-
view approach to ensure an organization’s approach to security, in what they call “The
Hacker’s Approach.” The Beetles crowdsourced security platform is an exclusive
program and to be a part of it, applicants must go through a rigorous vetting process and
extensive background checks. But once in, they are bound under a non-disclosure
agreement and can then participate in Beetles’ services, such as, vulnerability assessment,
penetration testing, source code audit, network forensics, IoA, IoC, Malware analysis,
mobility security and end-point security. Details are available at www.beetles.io The
Beetles platform provides the client’s organization with an overview of their engagement,
logs to monitor and a full report, downloadable and exportable, including guideline on
how to patch the vulnerabilities found. The final reports are validated and authenticated
by an CISSP (Certified Information System Security Professional) to ensure global best
practices. The Beetles Red Team, comprised of its core researchers and ethical hacker
founders, have the sole mission of warding off cyber criminals and safeguarding the
client’s data, ensuring that no Revenue Impact or Business Impact befall the client. The
Red Team is assigned to security engagements in the financial sector and other selected
clients. Regarding the initiative, Beetles Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director,
Md. Muqeet Halim, said, “Due to the lack of an established and a vibrant security
industry in Bangladesh, most of the talented and skillful hackers are disappearing, going
off to different fields and career paths. We are working, with different private entities and
the defense sector, towards utilizing these talents and skills, with the goal of building a
safer and more secure Digital environment in Bangladesh.”