Webinar on Bug Bounty Rewarding Program

The Research and Consultancy Committee of the Information Technology Department organised a webinar on the Bug Bounty Reward program. The webinar was held on 27 January 2021 at 9 am under the title “Bug Hunting Tools and Platforms - Every Ethical Hacker Needs to Know”. It was delivered by Dr Mortada Al Banna, a lecturer and security researcher at the University of New South Wales, Australia. The webinar was inaugurated by a welcome speech presented by Dr Qais Qassim, addressing the guest speaker and attendees. Dr Al Banna started his session introducing crowdsourcing concepts and elaborating on how crowdsourcing has improved various domains including open innovation, sharing economy and manufacturing, as well as software testing and vulnerability discovery. Afterwards, the speaker introduced the Bug Bounty Rewarding program and its benefits to fresh graduates and students. Next, the complete steps of a successful bug hunting strategy were illustrated and explained in detail, along with the underlying steps and procedures of each. During the session, Dr Al Banna demonstrated some of the well-known platforms that manage bug bounty programs such as HackerOne and Bugcrowd. Additionally, he also demonstrated some of the penetration testing tools and techniques used in discovering vulnerabilities and enumerating targets. 

After an informative and well-structured presentation, the guest speaker allotted some time for the Q&A session. About 32 staff members and students attended the webinar which lasted for one hour and 30 minutes, it concluded at 10:30 am. The full video recording is available online via the following link: https://cutt.ly/BugBountyProgram