What is the ideal time to create a program on BugHunt?
In this article, we will discuss the best time to join a Bug Bounty program, including tips on how to achieve the necessary maturity.
Every company with systems, whether its core business is creating tools for its own organization or selling externally, faces the reality of bugs.
Especially as development projects grow and require collaboration among teams, having a dedicated team to ensure quality can help detect more vulnerabilities but is often not efficient.
The option that has shown results and is experiencing growing adoption and popularity is the concept of a Bug Bounty program, where you only pay specialists if they find issues in your systems. However, a Bug Bounty program may not be a good choice for companies that do not yet have a process for handling bugs [1]. Therefore, there is a path that every organization should follow to ensure that all components are in place to handle the impact on application support teams (infrastructure, development, or security) through a Bug Bounty program.
The path to creating a Bug Bounty program involves more than just allocating a budget and people to read the reports generated; specific functions in the process must be understood. In other words, the process of handling vulnerabilities should be a natural part of the application support team’s workflow.
The maturation process for creating Bug Bounty programs should look like the figure below:
Handling vulnerabilities is not an area that operates overnight; it requires practice and adjustments to adapt to the company's day-to-day operations effectively.
At BugHunt, we advise any company that has not yet worked with a Bug Bounty program and does not have a team to manage vulnerability responses to first enroll in a Private Plan. This will allow for greater control over the reports generated on the platform.
BugHunt also offers a management option, where our team of professionals will work with your team to shape your Bug Bounty program, and we will handle all report screening as well as all interactions with the specialists.
For more information, please contact us!