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Next chapter: Restructuring GitHub’s flaw bounty program
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Key facts
- They're formalizing a permanent private/invite-only VIP program for qualified researchers who consistently deliver high-quality, high-impact work
- VIP researchers get higher payouts, faster response times, and a closer working relationship with their security engineering team
- To reduce the volume of low-effort and AI-generated reports, they're implementing a HackerOne signal requirement on the public program
- Alongside the bounty restructuring and the VIP program, they're investing in faster response times, clearer severity reasoning, and more community engagement
Summary
For more than a decade, researchers from around the world have helped them find and fix vulnerabilities before they could be exploited, and they've worked hard to be a program worth their time. Today, they're sharing some meaningful changes to how the program works. The program is facing an increasing queue. These changes are about two things: reducing the noise so they can focus on the signal, and building a program that serious researchers find rewarding to participate in. They're formalizing a permanent private/invite-only VIP program for qualified researchers who consistently deliver high-quality, high-impact work.