Re:Announcing the Windows Bounty Program
by tptacek on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:36PM
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Microsoft has been doing this for a long time; they're one of the pioneers of bounty programs.
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Much respect to Microsoft and their new found love of bounty programs, but pioneer is a bit of a stretch - they launched their first bounty program in 2013, well after third party bug bug buyers like ZDI, and even after BugCrowd and other bug bounty as a service companies launched.
I feel like Katie Moussouris switched from SDL to bug bounty stuff at MSFT in like 2011, but I may have the dates fuzzed up a little bit.
Really the only point I want to make is that this is not Microsoft announcing their first bounty program.