What is bug bounty?

Security threats are evolving, while the organization's IT systems and applications are constantly changing. Thus, organizations must regularly test their IT environment. A bug bounty is about using the power of crowdsourced security to secure your business. During a bug bounty program, a company can offer rewards to ethical hackers for reporting vulnerabilities.

The management of vulnerability disclosure is getting more and more important. The organizations have to implement procedures for the coordination of disclosing vulnerabilities to protect their data. Using our bug bounty platform can help you in the sensitive nature of vulnerability disclosure. Our global community of ethical hackers is a guarantee against software bugs.

It’s time to bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure to be integrated into your cybersecurity strategy.

How does it work?

Ethical hackers find vulnerabilities before someone else finds them. However, launching a bug bounty program must be planned carefully. Our team of security professionals is helping you prepare for the bug bounty program and helping you during the security testing. Our bug bounty platform provides you a convenient way to start your first bug bounty program.

PLAN

Definition of the scope

Definition of the company's objectives and requirements, especially what is in the scope, what are the rewards for the reported vulnerabilities, and the number of hackers invited to the program. You can start a public or private (invitation only) bug bounty program.

PREPARE

Preparation for testing

Finalization of the testing plan provided by HACKRATE, which contains the timeline and the bug bounty program's rules. For example, it must be specified what hackers can and cannot do during the testing, which kind of vulnerabilities are considered accepted.

TESTING

Testing and reporting

HACKRATE launch the program and invite ethical hackers. During the testing, ethical hackers submit bug reports with the details on how to exploit the bug. Our team verifies the bugs reported by the hackers. Your company receives updates on submitted vulnerabilities immediately via our platform.

FIXING

Remediation of risks

After the validation of reports submitted on the platform, the company can start the resolution of identified risks with the help of the hackers. The ethical hackers get the rewards and reputation points on our platform based on the severity of the identified vulnerabilities.

Why HACKRATE?

Better results

A global community of independent and motivated ethical hackers with a more diverse skillset can provide much better results than traditional pen-tests

Single trusted view

Our secure platform helps you to keep vulnerability reports centralized and easily manageable, while you can access the identified vulnerabilities immediately

Increase the trust of your company

Prevent potential data breach by reducing security risks, and also create a culture of transparency and responsibility, which means a strong commitment to security

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