Case Study: RealtyShares achieves comprehensive web application security and faster remediation with Cobalt's crowdsourced penetration testing

RealtyShares - Customer Case Study

RealtyShares, a leading online marketplace for real estate investing, needed more comprehensive application security than intermittent in-house engineers and local consultants could provide. CTO Gene Linetsky turned to Cobalt for semi-annual crowdsourced penetration tests and access to Cobalt Central to ensure sensitive fintech data remained protected and to gain broader testing coverage and diverse security expertise.

Cobalt delivered two-week, semi-annual pen tests staffed by a CISSP-certified lead and two domain experts, covering OWASP Top 10 and application logic, with re-tests, year‑round lead access, and GitHub integration for faster remediation. Using Cobalt’s crowdsourced model and SaaS platform, RealtyShares gained immediate, actionable findings, sped up patching and pre-release feature reviews, and achieved a stronger security posture and higher ROI through Cobalt’s testing program.

RealtyShares

Gene Linetsky

Chief Technology Officer