---
id: 3192
title: "How Understanding Researcher Motivations Can Help You Run a Successful Bug Bounty Program"
source_domain: bugcrowd.com
source_url: "https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/how-understanding-researcher-motivations-can-help-you-run-a-successful-bug-bounty-program/"
published_at: "2017-11-21T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "community", "bugcrowd", "report", "program-management", "researcher-motivation"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3192"
lang: en
---

# How Understanding Researcher Motivations Can Help You Run a Successful Bug Bounty Program

## Summary

Bugcrowd's Inside the Mind of a Hacker 2.0 report shows its researcher crowd grew 71% to 65,000 members; understanding motivations like challenge helps tune scope, rewards, and disclosure policy.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bugcrowd.com
- **Published:** 2017-11-21T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/how-understanding-researcher-motivations-can-help-you-run-a-successful-bug-bounty-program/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3192