---
id: 3640
title: "Bug Bounty First Impressions"
source_domain: hackerone.com
source_url: "https://www.hackerone.com/blog/bug-bounty-first-impressions"
published_at: "2016-09-22T08:32:00Z"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "communication", "best-practices", "program-management", "hackerone"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3640"
lang: en
---

# Bug Bounty First Impressions

## Summary

Advice for a bug bounty program's critical first weeks: pay fair rates for serious bugs, over-communicate scope and expectations, and avoid missteps that scare off top hacker talent.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackerone.com
- **Published:** 2016-09-22T08:32:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.hackerone.com/blog/bug-bounty-first-impressions
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3640