What Are Bug Bounty Programs, And Why Are They Becoming So Popular? | S01E09

09/12/2022 9 min Temporada 1 Episodio 9

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Episode Synopsis

A bug bounty is a monetary reward given to ethical hackers for successfully discovering and reporting a vulnerability or bug to the application's developer. Bug bounty programs allow companies to leverage the ethical hacking and security researcher community to improve their systems’ security posture over time continuously. Bug bounties can complement existing security controls by exposing vulnerabilities that automated scanners miss, and incentivize security researchers to emulate what a potential bad actor would attempt to exploit.

In this episode we discuss about "Bug Bounty".
We have discussed what is Bug Bounty program, Why such bug bounty programs are there, How to participate in those programs and Where the bugs can be reported!

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