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2016 State of Bug Bounty Report
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2016 State of Bug Bounty Report

Bugcrowd's second annual report shows the current state of the bug bounty ecosystem, with data from organizations running bug bounty programs and security researchers participating in them.

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  • Report

    Industry Report: Financial Services

    Learn why and how financial services industry is looking to bug bounty programs to strengthen their application security and protect customer data. 

  • Webinar

    Monthly 'Big Bugs' Podcast

    Our monthly podcast hosted by Jason Haddix, Dr. of Technical Operations at Bugcrowd, analyzes some juicy bugs we've seen and how to defend against them. Subscribe now to get monthly episodes. 

  • Report

    Inside the Mind of a Hacker

    In this report we highlight a few specific bug hunters in the global Bugcrowd community, examine different motivations of different types of bug hunters and provide 'action items' for program owners to tap into different segments of researchers.

  • Guide

    Anatomy of a Bounty Brief

    In this guide, you'll learn what makes for a good bounty brief and a successful program, as well as how researchers and program owners can align their respective expectations and avoid ambiguity and miscommunication. 

  • Guide

    Meet Crowdcontrol

    Bugcrowd's platform, Crowdcontrol, connects your security teams and applications to thousands of trusted hackers around the world.

  • Webinar

    Writing Vulnerability Reports that Maximize Your Bounty Payouts

    Kymberlee Price discusses several critical steps to writing great vulnerability submissions that will speed up issue triage for the incident response team receiving reports (and result in higher bounty payouts). Examples of common mistakes will be reviewed with real submissions received by Bugcrowd.

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    2016 State of Bug Bounty Report

    Bugcrowd's second annual report shows the current state of the bug bounty ecosystem, with data from organizations running bug bounty programs and security researchers participating in them.

  • Guide

    Bugcrowd's Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy

    The VRT is a resource outlining Bugcrowd’s baseline priority rating, including certain edge cases, for vulnerabilities that we see often. Last updated March 2016. 

  • Guide

    Welcome to Bugcrowd

    Bugcrowd puts an army of thousands of the world's top security researchers on your side. With specialized skills in web and mobile applications, just like yours, they even the odds and find bugs in your code before the bad guys do.

  • Webinar

    How to Shot Web by Jason Haddix

    Originally given at DEFCON 23, Jason Haddix explores successful tactics and tools used by himself and the best bug hunters. Practical methodologies, tools and tips that make you better at hacking websites and mobile apps to claim those bug bounties. 

  • Webinar

    How the Crowd Outperforms Traditional Security Testing

    State of the art security programs have been turning to bug bounties to leverage a vast array of skill-sets and knowledge for years. Organizations like Google, Facebook and Mozilla utilize crowdsourced security testing with great results, and now smaller companies are following suit, oftentimes using intermediaries like Bugcrowd to manage their own programs. 

  • Infographic

    Bug Bounties, Visualized

    Learn about the security job gap, and how Bugcrowd helps close that gap with crowdsourced security programs.

  • Webinar

    How DevOps Becomes DevOpsSec

    Learn how to introduce DevOpsSec with or without DevOps, how companies can accelerate their security ROI, and the key to decreasing friction between dev and security teams.

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    Flex Program Efficiency Report

    Flex Bounties are crowdsourced penetration tests that provide increased results at a lower price per vulnerability. Get the report to learn how.