| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP17443 |
| DP17443 The Simple Economics of an External Shock on a Crowdsourced "Bug Bounty Platform" | |
| Aviram Zrahia; Neil Gandal; Sarit Markovich; Michael Riordan | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-07-06 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In this paper, we first provide background on the "nuts and bolts" of a bug bounty platform a two-sided marketplace that connects firms and individual security researchers ("ethical" hackers) to find and be rewarded for discovering software vulnerabilities. We then empirically examine the effect of an exogenous external shock (Covid-19) on Bugcrowd, one of the two largest "two-sided" bug bounty platforms. The shock reduced the opportunity set for many security researchers who either lost their jobs or were placed on a leave of absence. We show that the exogenous shock led to a huge rightward (downward) shift in the supply curve and to an increase both in the number of submissions and new researchers on the platform. The results suggest that had there been a larger increase in number of firms with bug bounty programs on the platform, many more unique software vulnerabilities would have been discovered. We quantify the benefits to the platform from the exogenous shock which enables us to shed light on the benefits associated with the gig economy. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization |
| 关键词 | Bug bounty programs Platform Covid-19 |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp17443 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/546531 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Aviram Zrahia,Neil Gandal,Sarit Markovich,et al. DP17443 The Simple Economics of an External Shock on a Crowdsourced "Bug Bounty Platform". 2022. |
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