Bug Bounty Program Consulting
Researcher-perspective review of program scope, policy, and triage workflows — helping teams launch or improve a bug bounty program that attracts quality reports and reduces noise.
What's included
Most bug bounty programs fail quietly: too broad a scope, unclear reward tiers, and a triage team drowning in low-quality duplicates. This engagement applies a working researcher's perspective to your program before or after launch, so scope, policy, and workflow are designed around how researchers actually think and search.
Areas covered
- Scope design — defining in-scope assets and vulnerability classes that attract useful reports without inviting noise.
- Reward structure review — benchmarking reward tiers against comparable programs on HackerOne, Bugcrowd, and YesWeHack.
- Policy & safe harbor language — clear rules of engagement that reduce ambiguity for both sides.
- Triage workflow — validating incoming reports, assessing duplicate/severity status, and building response templates.
- Researcher experience audit — a first-report walkthrough from a researcher's point of view, flagging friction points.
Deliverables
- A written program review with specific, prioritized recommendations.
- Draft or revised scope and policy language ready for internal review.
- Optional ongoing triage support on a retainer basis.
Who this is for: security teams launching a first bug bounty program, or teams with an existing program that's generating too much noise relative to signal.
Common questions
Why hire a researcher to review our bug bounty program instead of just launching it?
Programs that launch without a researcher-informed scope and policy tend to get flooded with low-quality or duplicate reports, while missing the areas skilled researchers would actually target. A pre-launch review tightens scope, sets realistic reward tiers, and reduces triage overhead later.
Do you help with report triage, not just program setup?
Yes. Triage support includes validating incoming reports, assessing real-world severity and duplicate status, and drafting response templates so your internal team spends less time on noise.
Which platforms do you have experience with?
Hands-on experience as a researcher on HackerOne, Bugcrowd, and YesWeHack, which informs recommendations on scope structure, reward tiers, and communication that actually work for researchers on those platforms.
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