June 2024
Intermediate to advanced
310 pages
8h 59m
English
Content preview from 97 Things Every Application Security Professional Should Know
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Chapter 61. Bug Bounty—Shift Everywhere
Sean Poris
A bug bounty program is an initiative that organizations adopt to invite ethical hackers to identify vulnerabilities in web applications, software, or even hardware.
When I first started looking at bug bounty programs as a part of a holistic AppSec program, business and legal teams at that time pushed back incredibly hard. Their response was somewhere between incredulity and blatant aggressive defiance. A typical conversation with the legal department could have easily ended with, “If anyone intentionally engages in hacking our websites, we will issue them a cease and desist letter immediately.” Clearly, the hurdles were too great.
Fast forward to about 2019, and bug bounty programs were becoming a mainstay in many programs. But with the shift left mantra of getting security focused earlier in the development life cycle, where does a right-shifted bug bounty program truly sit? The reality is that AppSec efforts aren’t perfect, and internal corporate security programs simply don’t have the scale of resources to bring the level of diversity necessary to execute testing to the degree and duration a healthy bug bounty program does. So, in the classic sense of security, bug bounty programs are part of a “belt and suspenders” model of complementing shift left security activities, following today’s more appropriate philosophy of “shift ...
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