Bug bounty programs are used by individual software makers to improve the quality of their products, but they can have incidental benefits for all software makers, too. One of those is to encourage bug hunters to wear a white hat instead of a black one. That’s particularly true for researchers attracted to bounty programs, observed Eduardo Vela Nava, a security engineer with Google, which has a large and successful bug bounty program. “The target audience of bug bounty programs are researchers who want to keep users safe,” he told TechNewsWorld.
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Bug Bounties Entice Researchers to Don White Hats
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. February 10, 2015 09:09 AMBug bounty programs are used by individual software makers to improve the quality of their products, but they can have incidental benefits for all software makers, too. One of those is to encourage bug hunters to wear a white hat instead of a black one. That’s particularly true for researchers attracted to bounty programs, observed Eduardo Vela Nava, a security engineer with Google, which has a large and successful bug bounty program. “The target audience of bug bounty programs are researchers who want to keep users safe,” he told TechNewsWorld.