The purpose of this market is to cover the crowdsourcing marketplace for testing, which we will refer to as crowdtesting. There are two main categories of crowdtesting services; vetted communities and unvetted communities. Vetted implies that the individuals have been vetted and verified by the crowdsourcing firm before connecting them with a client. There are also full service providers offering crowdtesting. This market concentrates on the pure-play vetted and unvetted providers.
Gartner defines the application security testing (AST) market as the buyers and sellers of products and services designed to analyze and test applications for security vulnerabilities. This market is highly dynamic and continues to experience rapid evolution in response to changing application architectures and enabling technologies. AST tools are offered either as software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based subscription offerings, or less often, as on-premises software. Many vendors offer both options.