A bug bounty program is a crowdsourcing initiative hosted by the organizations in order to give a platform to security researchers and white hat hackers from across the globe to showcase their skills and discover any security holes in their infrastructure. Depending upon the severity level of the big reported and the details presented within the Proof of Concept (POC), they are either rewarded with remuneration or recognition as a token of appreciation.

While a large majority of the bug bounty programs are public, certain are private events and are strictly invite-based. Such programs have stringent terms and conditions that the invitees must always abide by.

During this course, you will acquire knowledge in the fundamentals of application security vulnerabilities and penetration testing.

In order to initiate the Bug Bounty Training, you should be aware of the basic concepts of the development web-applications; frontend and backend – what programming or scripting languages contributes for web-development and even how the web-applications are hosted on the server.