Open a programme and the reports arrive immediately. Most are duplicates. Many are scanner output pasted into a form. A few are excellent. Telling those apart is a specialist job, and it is the reason most self-run programmes are quietly abandoned within a year.
A bug bounty gives you something no scheduled test can: continuous attention from many independent testers with different instincts, paid only for results. That is genuinely valuable. The cost is a support queue staffed by your senior engineers, arriving unpredictably, in which most tickets are worthless and one is critical.
Secuur runs that queue. We define the scope and safe-harbour terms, receive and validate every report, reproduce what is real, deduplicate against known issues, assign severity, and hand your team a short stream of confirmed findings with working reproduction steps. You keep the upside and stop paying for it in engineering attention.
Scope, exclusions, severity-to-payout table and safe-harbour language written so researchers engage and lawyers are comfortable.
Every submission validated and reproduced by a tester before it reaches your engineers. Invalid reports never arrive.
Checked against your known-issue register and prior submissions, so you pay once for a bug rather than nine times.
Consistent, defensible severity ratings with a recommended award, which is what keeps good researchers coming back.
We handle the correspondence — including the disagreements — in your name and to a professional standard.
Start with a disclosure policy and no budget, upgrade to paid bounties when the pipeline justifies it.
Cryptographic weaknesses sit in an awkward place for bounty programmes. Researchers report "weak TLS configuration" constantly, most of it is noise from a generic scanner, and triagers learn to close it — which is precisely how a real key-exchange problem gets dismissed alongside the noise.
Scope, terms, severity table and payout ranges agreed. We baseline your known issues so duplicates are recognisable from day one.
Private beta with a small invited researcher pool first, then open up once the queue volume is understood.
We triage continuously. Your engineers receive confirmed, deduplicated, reproducible findings and nothing else.
A vulnerability disclosure programme gives researchers a safe, legal channel to report issues, with no payment. A bug bounty adds financial rewards, which increases both the volume and the quality of submissions. Most organisations should run a VDP first and add bounties once triage capacity exists.
No. Bounties are unscoped, opportunistic and pay for outcomes, so researchers gravitate to what is quick to find. A penetration test gives you guaranteed coverage of the areas you care about within a defined window. The two find different bugs and work well together.
It depends on your attack surface and severity table. We model an expected range during design and start with a private programme so you can observe real volume before committing to an open one.
We handle the correspondence using the published severity matrix as the reference. Having the criteria written down before launch is what turns most of those disputes into a short, factual exchange.
Human-led testing against your applications, network and cloud — with findings written for engineers and evidence written for auditors.
Dynamic testing against your real applications — authentication, APIs, business logic and the crypto underneath them.
Find every host, port, certificate and endpoint you actually own — then see which ones a quantum adversary is already recording.
The scan is free and takes 20 seconds. It also tells us enough to scope bug bounty hunting properly instead of guessing.