Why You Can’t Ignore the Economics of a Bug Bounty
Summary
Bugcrowd's payout data shows rising bounty economics: total payouts topped $6 million (up 211%), the average payout hit $451, and critical bugs average $1,776, with hardware/IoT paying the most.
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--- id: 3219 title: "Why You Can’t Ignore the Economics of a Bug Bounty" source_domain: bugcrowd.com source_url: "https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/why-you-cant-ignore-the-economics-of-a-bug-bounty/" published_at: "2017-07-14T00:00:00Z" tags: ["bug-bounty", "cloud", "bugcrowd", "payouts", "research-report", "economics"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3219" lang: en --- # Why You Can’t Ignore the Economics of a Bug Bounty ## Summary Bugcrowd's payout data shows rising bounty economics: total payouts topped $6 million (up 211%), the average payout hit $451, and critical bugs average $1,776, with hardware/IoT paying the most. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** bugcrowd.com - **Published:** 2017-07-14T00:00:00Z - **Original:** https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/why-you-cant-ignore-the-economics-of-a-bug-bounty/ - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3219