Hacking Competitions
A channel where hundreds of researchers compete to find the flaws in your systems and report them to you, instead of exploiting them.
- Pay only for validated findings
- Triage included
- Real-time reports
Why a channel
No channel, nowhere to report.
When you have a channel to receive vulnerabilities in exchange for rewards, you discourage crime and strengthen your environment. Without one, you're open to attacks 24 hours a day.
Someone finds a flaw
In your public app
No channel
Nowhere to report it
Your app
Gets exploited
- 02:14Flaw found in /api/v2/orders
How it works
From reward pool to clean report.
You set the budget, we run the competition and the triage. Only real, validated vulnerabilities reach your team.
You deposit the pool upfront. It stays reserved and is only paid out for real, validated vulnerabilities.
Pay for results
You only pay for what's found.
Your pool is a ceiling, not a fee. How much of it is paid depends on the most severe vulnerability found, and the rest goes back to your organization.
Most severe vulnerability found
Returned to you
$12,500
50% of the pool
Paid to researchers
$12,500
50% of the pool
The worst finding is Medium: half the pool is paid and the other half comes back to you.
Advantages
Why teams choose competitions.
More coverage than a single team, the cost of a fixed budget, and none of the overhead of running it yourself.
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Strength in numbers
Hundreds of researchers with different skills and approaches test your application at the same time, finding what a single team or tool would miss.
Questions
The usual doubts, answered.
Exploiting a flaw is a crime with real legal consequences. Reporting it through Bypassec is legal, authorized and rewarded. Researchers are identified on the platform and follow the competition rules, so the incentive is always to report, never to attack.
Then the reward pool goes back to your organization, since you only pay for validated findings. A clean result is valuable too: it shows your application held up against hundreds of researchers.
Yes. Competitions produce documented, validated security testing, with evidence and retests, which supports the requirements of frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
No. Competitions target applications that are already public, and no confidential information is shared with researchers. Private competitions may use test accounts you create for them.
Formats
Public or private.
Pick who gets to test. Both formats include triage, retests and the same pay-for-results model.
Internal systems or confidential data?Pentest as a Service
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