It’s no secret that more and more companies are jumping on the Bug Bounty Program bandwagon, and for good reason, there is a lot of value to be had there. However, rolling out a Bug Bounty Program (BBP) before you have done your own due diligence can often cause more problems than it solves.

Bugcrowd, one of the largest bug bounty program service providers, touts that within the first two weeks a typical company with a new BBP will see 5 critical vulnerabilities, 70 unique vulnerabilities, and 200 total vulnerabilities. Those are impressive but potentially overwhelming stats. If you reverse the math a bit, that means that organizations need to:

Source: DZone