Bugcrowd Launches AI Connect and Asset View to Supercharge Vulnerability Management with Real-Time Insight and Automation

At Black Hat USA 2025, Bugcrowd pulled back the curtain on two major platform upgrades—AI Connect and Asset View—designed to bring surgical precision and real-time automation to vulnerability management in a threat landscape that’s more complex than ever.

Both tools aim to solve a recurring pain point for security teams: how to keep up with threats when assets are constantly shifting and AI systems lack real-world security context. The answer, according to Bugcrowd, lies in blending human ingenuity with machine intelligence—and doing it inside a unified platform.

“Security teams today are racing to scale operations with AI and automation, but they’re often blocked by disconnected data and fragmented workflows,” said Dave Gerry, CEO of Bugcrowd. “With AI Connect and Asset View, we're removing those roadblocks.”

AI Connect: Giving AI a Brain for Real Security

Let’s start with the smarter of the two updates—literally. Bugcrowd's AI Connect serves as a secure, read-only conduit between a customer’s internal AI tools and the Bugcrowd Platform’s vulnerability intelligence. That means security teams can now feed their in-house generative AI engines with actual data from live bug bounties, pen tests, and red team exercises—without scraping, exporting, or praying the AI doesn’t hallucinate.

Built on the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI Connect allows customers to pipe real-time data directly into their AI stacks. The goal: contextual, environment-specific remediation advice that actually reflects a customer’s own codebase and infrastructure.

“We’re giving them the secure building blocks they need to create truly intelligent security automation that works for their specific environment,” said Braden Russell, Chief Product Officer at Bugcrowd.

It’s the difference between a generic chatbot telling you to “update your libraries,” and a purpose-trained AI agent saying, “This high-risk SQLi is in your user_profile_update function, introduced in commit 4f7a9a. Here’s how to fix it in compliance with your org’s policies.”

Just as importantly, AI Connect respects strict role-based access control. Every AI request is sandboxed to the same permissions as the authenticated user—critical in a world where developers and security teams must operate within clearly defined boundaries.

Bugcrowd is also betting on interoperability. Whether you're running OpenAI, Claude, or a bespoke in-house LLM, AI Connect’s open protocol means you’re not locked into a proprietary ecosystem—something few other vendors can claim.

Asset View: Turning Shadow IT into a Tactical Advantage

While AI Connect gives brains to your bots, Asset View puts eyes on your attack surface.

Think of it as a control tower for everything exposed to the internet—domains, apps, email servers, APIs, and the stray IPs from marketing’s rogue SaaS rollout. Asset View continuously ingests asset data from External Attack Surface Management (EASM) scans and manual inputs, enriching them with exposure levels, ownership metadata, and business criticality.

But this isn’t just another dashboard. What makes Asset View stand out is actionability.

Security teams can instantly drop assets into bug bounties, red teams, or pen tests—no context-switching, no spreadsheet hell. You see something risky, you launch an engagement with the crowd that knows how to break it.

“Effective security testing hinges on knowing what to test,” said Nick McKenzie, CI&SO at Bugcrowd. “Bugcrowd Asset View directly addresses this by unifying asset discovery, enrichment, and offensive testing into one seamless platform.”

Asset View also maintains a complete audit trail, providing much-needed transparency and compliance readiness—two features that CISOs and auditors will appreciate during incident postmortems.

Why This Matters Now

Bugcrowd’s updates are more than cosmetic upgrades—they’re a response to the fundamental disconnect between AI hype and security reality.

Generative AI is flooding the enterprise, but most security teams still rely on brittle integrations, stale data, and laborious handoffs between tools. Meanwhile, their attack surface expands by the hour.

Bugcrowd is betting that the only way forward is to blend the collective creativity of ethical hackers with the speed and scale of intelligent automation—and to do it in a way that’s open, context-rich, and secure by design.

Both AI Connect and Asset View are slated for general availability in Q4 2025. AI Connect is currently available through an Early Access Preview for select customers. Interested organizations can visit Booth #4818 at Black Hat USA to get a live walkthrough.

In a world where attackers move fast and think creatively, Bugcrowd is making the case that defenders can—and should—do both too.