Offensive Security

Bug Bounty Programs

Design and triage of private and public bug-bounty programs.

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What it is

Help designing, launching and running a bug bounty or vulnerability disclosure programme that produces real findings without burying your team. We write the policy, set the scope and rewards, and take on the triage so your engineers only see reports that are valid, deduplicated and clearly explained.

How we do it

  1. 1

    Readiness assessment

    Whether you are ready at all — a bounty launched before basic testing is done buys expensive reports of things you already knew.

  2. 2

    Policy and safe harbour

    Scope, rules of engagement and legal safe harbour written so good-faith researchers are protected and know where the boundaries are.

  3. 3

    Reward structure

    Bounty tiers benchmarked against your sector so the programme attracts attention without unbounded cost.

  4. 4

    Launch approach

    Usually private with invited researchers first, widening to public once triage throughput is proven.

  5. 5

    Triage operation

    We validate, reproduce, deduplicate and severity-rate every submission before it reaches your developers.

  6. 6

    Researcher relations

    Timely responses and fair adjudication, because a programme's reputation determines who bothers to submit to it.

What's included

  • Programme policy and safe harbour language
  • Scope and reward structure design
  • Platform selection and setup support
  • Full triage and reproduction of submissions
  • Deduplication and severity rating
  • Researcher communication handled for you

Who needs it

  • Organisations with mature internal testing ready for external eyes
  • Products with a large public attack surface
  • Teams needing a disclosure route before a regulator requires one

Deliverables

  • Published programme policy and scope
  • Triaged, validated findings into your tracker
  • Duplicate and out-of-scope decisions with reasoning
  • Programme metrics — volume, validity rate, time to resolve

Compliance relevance

ISO 29147ISO 30111PCI DSS

Frequently asked questions

Only if you can fix what comes in. If you have not had a penetration test, or you have a backlog of known unfixed issues, a bounty will mostly cost money to be told things you already know. We will say so before you spend.
Bounty payments plus triage effort plus platform fees if you use one. The controllable part is scope and reward design, which is most of what the design work is for.
A vulnerability disclosure programme gives researchers a lawful way to report and pays nothing. A bounty pays for findings and attracts far more attention. Most organisations should run a VDP first.

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