Corporate Cybersecurity: Identifying Risks and the Bug Bounty Program

by John Jackson

CORPORATE CYBERSECURITY An insider's guide showing companies how to spot and remedy vulnerabilities in their security programsA bug bounty program is offered by organizations for people to receive recognition and compensation for reporting bugs, especially those pertaining to security exploits and vulnerabilities. Corporate Cybersecurity gives cyber and application security engineers (who may have little or no experience with a bounty program) a hands-on guide for creating or managing an effective bug bounty program. Written by a cyber security expert, the book is filled with the information, guidelines, and tools that engineers can adopt to sharpen their skills and become knowledgeable in researching, configuring, and managing bug bounty programs.This book addresses the technical aspect of tooling and managing a bug bounty program and discusses common issues that engineers may run into on a daily basis. The author includes information on the often-overlooked communication and follow-through approaches of effective management. Corporate Cybersecurity provides a much-needed resource on how companies identify and solve weaknesses in their security program. This important Contains a much-needed guide aimed at cyber and application security engineers Presents a unique defensive guide for understanding and resolving security vulnerabilities Encourages research, configuring, and managing programs from the corporate perspective Topics covered include bug bounty overview; program set-up; vulnerability reports and disclosure; development and application Security Collaboration; understanding safe harbor and SLAWritten for professionals working in the application and cyber security arena, Corporate Cybersecurity offers a comprehensive resource for building and maintaining an effective bug bounty program.

220 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 22, 2021

About the author

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John Jackson, b. 1929, lawyer, publisher and author
John Jackson, South-African chef
John Jackson, 1853-1917
John Jackson, 1686-1763
John Jackson, d. 1855

Reviews

[Ajam · Rating 3 out of 5]

3★
I read this so I could understand the perspective of the other side. This book describes really basic things in corporate tongue, which takes away and makes it quite boring at times, but I am guessing those are the type of audience it is geared towards anyway.