5 platform that pay huge if you're an Ethical H4CK3R
Tags: cybersecurity, devops, research, bugs
Published: 2024-02-08 16:59:55

Hi There,

With the advancements in tech, there is a push and need of community driven Cybersecurity advancements. One of the advancements that people are catching up, is to become a freelance Ethical H4CK3R a.k.a Bug-Bounty Hunter

FYI, **Bug-Bounty Hunters** are the people who find issues, technically known as "bugs" and report them to the website/product owner. The researcher / hunter is then eligible for rewards for findings. This includes monetary rewards, known as "bounties", swags as well as recommendations and recognition.

The top 5 platforms that will pay you pretty good as a Ethical H4CK3RS a.k.a bug-bounty hunter are as follows 


## OpenBugBounty

Openbugbounty is a platform for anyone, who wants to get started with finding issues and vulnerabilities in product codes and enhance skills in security research. This place is much more community driven. The security issues that you can find here are short-listed, meaning that you don't have much things to find in as a security researcher. But for beginners, this is a right place to get themselves started with Ethical H4CK1NG, and to get paid eventually.

## Bugcrowd

Bugcrowd, being my personal favorite when you're up in the game. When you're beginner, you need to enhance skills. Intermediary skills of security research is always favorable when you're working over Bugcrowd. You're paid handsomely for your fresh findings. Bugcrowd has there own "**VRT**" or Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy, and you as a researcher need to follow this. Your research need to be with respect to VRT for dodging **Duplicate** / **Informative** reports.

## Hackerone

**Hackerone**, being industry leading for ethical hackers, comes up quite difficult to crack in if you're getting started as a Ethical H4CK3R / bug-bounty hunter, because the VRT rating with respect to severity is quite next level. This makes it difficult for new researchers to find critical issues and pay good. But, they too are community driven, so they promote updated resources that help anyone to get started as well as skill up to the top 1% hacker for FREE..!!!

## Intigriti

Marked at 4, this platform is extremely friendly when you are new to security research. But to level up, one needs to work on critical bugs (injection issues, Security Misconfiguration) to grab new positions and bounties. Maintained community work and resources are one of the key factors that Intigriti is slowly making an impact in, and there are potential chances that it might become one of the top platforms for crowdsource security.

## YesWeHack

Marked at 5, this platform has been in demand for experienced  Ethical H4CK3RS to find issues and let product owners know about it. There have been new H4CK3RS that have come up with interesting findings, and have got good payouts. YesWeHack too is community driven, and is in the race of becoming pretty much good for crowdsource security solution.

So these, are my personal five, favorite as well as interesting platforms for Ethical H4CK3RS that will help them earn pretty good and grow in right direction.

A small start, leads to big growth.

Keep leveling up and keep rocking..!!!!