Week 12 Journal 13 – Carter Hendrick

This article is about the quickly shifting attitude of corporations to establish VDP’s (which makes it so people who report vulnerabilities to a business cannot be held liable for breaching their system and did not abuse it) and also become more active is creating their own bug bounty programs. These kinds of programs avridines a certain amount of money for finding vulnerabilities in their systems and can be found on websites like hackerone. Originally business and corporations were not welcoming to this kind of intervention, but due to recent cybersecurity concerns they have become more open to letting freelance hackers look find vulnerabilities for them which is also more cost effective than paying more money into professional ethical hackers.

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