Bug Bounty Program

Definitions

1. Bug Bounty Program is a coordinated vulnerability-disclosure program that rewards external researchers for responsibly reporting valid security issues. Security teams use it to enforce trust, reduce exposure, improve detection, or standardize secure operations in production environments. Its value depends on correct configuration, lifecycle management, and surrounding controls, because weak defaults, poor integration, or missing visibility can create gaps that attackers exploit.

   In plain English: Bug Bounty Program is a security concept or control that helps organizations protect systems, manage trust, and notice suspicious behavior before damage spreads.

   Example: "After the review, the security team rolled out Bug Bounty Program in the affected environment, documented the operating procedure, and verified through logs and test cases that the control reduced exposure without breaking normal administrative or user workflows."

Related Terms

• SAST
• DAST
• Black Box Testing
• Burp Suite
• Common Vulnerability Scoring System
• Dynamic Application Security Testing
• Ethical Hacking
• Fault Injection
• Adversary Simulation
• Advisory
• Attack Emulation
• Black Box Fuzzing
• Cloud Penetration Testing
• Container Scanning
• Dynamic Analysis
• Fuzzer
• Public Exploit