This is a contributed guest post by Florian Badertscher from Swisscom’s bug bounty program. We are publishing it here on the Cyber Storm blog because it brings information valuable to companies planning a bug bounty program of their own.

Swiss Cyber Storm 2019 will run under the motto “Embracing the Hackers”. We have presented and explained this overall theme for our conference in a separate blog post in Spring. Now it is time to present you our lineup for our conference on October 15. This is the 2nd of two blog posts about our speakers. The first one is here.

Swiss Cyber Storm 2019 will run under the motto “Embracing the Hackers”. We have presented and explained this overall theme for our conference in a separate blog post in Spring. Now it is time to present you our lineup for our conference on October 15. This is the first of two blog posts about our speakers.

Engaging in Penetration Testers to gauge the security of existing online services has become a standard practice in our industry in Switzerland. Established services and new offerings are tested alike in order to uncover hidden bugs or to raise awareness of security problems that often go unnoticed with management or developers.