GSA readies the first civilian bug bounty program with new platform

Federal Times: The General Services Administration’s innovation arm, 18F, said the agency was edging closer to standing up its own bug bounty program after tapping a new provider for its reporting platform.

18F officials said in a May 11 blog post that GSA’s Technology Transformation Service had tapped HackerOne to provide its Software-as-a-Service bug-reporting platform.

The San Francisco-based company offers vulnerability coordination and platform services to reward ethical hackers to locate and report network security vulnerabilities.

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