We have recently been questioned on how our ranking point system works and how report quality is evaluated.

Our system has evolved quite a lot since inception, and some new report quality rating features have been added.

1- Triaging

The first step of a bug report life cycle is being ( hopefully ) accepted as valid by the program owner, otherwise it is classified as invalid and receives an additional qualification that eventually can lead to a negative rating, as illustrated below:

Note that a valid report can be triaged again as ” Informative ” or ” Won’t Fix ” after validation and before being accepted.

2- Accepted stage

Now that your shiny report has been accepted by the program owner, congratulations, you are now eligible for a reward.
But how are your ranking points calculated exactly?

a – Bounty

Depending on the bounty your report matches, you will be rewarded with ranking points:
– 15 POINTS for every bounty inferior to 500€
– 25 POINTS for every bounty from 500€, to 2000€
– 50 POINTS for every bounty superior to 2000€

b – Quality rating

The program owner can also reward the quality of your report and attribute 1 to 5 additional ranking points.

c – CVSS scoring bonus

Again, the program owner can give you 1 additional point if your report CVSS scoring falls right.

As summed-up in this chart:

You get 7 additional points for a resolved bug, a big thank you.

3- The big picture.

Finally we’ve stitched it all inside a single graph for your convenience.
Is our ranking system clearer?

You can refer to our leader-board to discover the hunters top 100

YesWeHack – Europe #1 bug bounty platform – has announced that it is opening an office in Singapore. The new office is part of YesWeHack’s fast-growth strategy for its international activities following a €4 million fundraising at the start of the year.

YesWeHack is consolidating its global positioning in a sector that will transform the cybersecurity industry over the next five years.

Kevin Gallerin has been appointed Managing Director APAC to develop YesWeHack’s strategy in Asia. Having spent more than ten years in the region, he knows the Asian cybersecurity market inside out, having notably participated in the launch of CERT-LEXSI in Singapore.

Cybersecurity is an urgent and major societal challenge. Highly correlated with the digitalization of our societies, cyberthreats have an increasing impact on our lives. It is therefore essential to ensure digital security and strategic autonomy of the EU by strengthening leading cybersecurity capacities. This challenge will require the coordination of Europe’s best competences, towards common research and innovation goals.

SPARTA is a novel Cybersecurity Competence Network, supported by the EU’s H2020 program, with the objective to develop and implement top-tier research and innovation collaborative actions. Strongly guided by concrete challenges forming an ambitious Cybersecurity Research & Innovation Roadmap, SPARTA will setup unique collaboration means, leading the way in building transformative capabilities and forming a world-leading Cybersecurity Competence Network across the EU. From basic human needs (health) to economic activities (energy, finance, and transport) to technologies (ICT and industry) to sovereignty (eGovernment, public administration), four research and innovation programs will push the boundaries to deliver advanced solutions to cover emerging challenges.

The SPARTA consortium, led by CEA, assembles a balanced set of 44 actors from 14 EU Member States, including ANSSI, Institut Mines-Télécom, Inria, Thales, and YesWeHack for France, at the intersection of scientific excellence, technological innovation, and societal sciences in cybersecurity. Together, along with SPARTA Associates, they aim at re-imagining the way cybersecurity research, innovation, and training are performed in Europe across domains and expertise, from foundations to applications, in academia and industry.

In sharing experiences and excellence, challenges and capabilities, SPARTA makes decisive contributions to European strategic autonomy.

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Follow SPARTA – Cybersecurity Competence Network –
on Twitter @sparta_eu

Building Trust at the core of digital transformation.

La Banque Postale puts its customers’ interests above all.

Through the creation of platform58, La Banque Postale asserts its willingness to strengthen its digital transformation for both its employees and customers.

Cybersecurity being a pillar of digital transformation, YesWeHack is looking forward to mobilizing its community in order to improve the banking industry global security.

The banking industry sees itself at a pivotal moment. The expectations of our customers but also of our employees, the rise of new disrupting techs and emerging players, require us to design a more open banking platform. With platform58, a strategic project for La Banque Postale, we embrace this change by creating a French FinTech & InsurTech ecosystem embodying our banking and civic values. We build together (start-ups, customers, partners, etc.) the bank and insurance of the future.

Remy Weber, Chairman of La Banque Postale’s Executive Board.

YesWeHack is delighted to be one of the first 7 start-ups to be hosted by platform58.

platform58 provides support and hosting for start-ups developing solutions in the fields of banking, insurance, technology, but also finance-related services, such as big data, health and education.

The platform58 incubator will offer selected start-ups (max. 10 per year) tailor-made support by experts and managers of La Banque Postale, with no equity investment and no time limit. Other actors, in particular CNP Assurances, 50 Partners1, Visa, EY, TelecomParisTech, 1000Mercis, and Startway will contribute to the success of start-ups.

L’équipe YesWeHack est fière d’annoncer qu’elle devient officiellement sponsor du CESIN, une association qui lui est chère.

YesWeHack et le CESIN vont, ensemble, contribuer à renforcer la coopération entre tous les acteurs du numérique.

La communauté de YesWeHack, forte de plus de 6500 chercheurs, est désormais représentée au sein du CESIN.

Un combo gagnant : la transformation numérique et la Cybersécurité

YesWeHack inscrit ce partenariat avec le CESIN dans le long terme, afin de partager sa vision de la cybersécurité du futur, adaptée aux transformations que connaissent les membres de l’association. 

Ayant contribué au sein du CESIN depuis 2016 en tant que CISO chez Qwant, c’est une fierté de devenir sponsor aujourd’hui avec YesWeHack. Nous allons continuer à participer aux échanges au cœur du CESIN car la cybersécurité est le pré-requis essentiel pour mener efficacement toute transformation numérique auprès des décideurs.”

Guillaume Vassault-Houlière, CEO de YesWeHack.

Avec plus de 500 membres, les activités du CESIN connaissent un succès grandissant parmi les experts en cybersécurité et YesWeHack est très enthousiaste à l’idée de participer à cette dynamique riche de promesses.

Le CESIN a souhaité cette année diversifier son sponsoring en accueillant en son sein quelques startups innovantes.

L’objectif est d’offrir encore davantage de visibilité à des entreprises auxquelles nous croyons beaucoup, comme YesWeHack car elles apportent, par leur innovation et leur audace, une réponse complémentaire aux enjeux de la cybersécurité auxquels sont confrontés les RSSI membres du club.

Alain Bouillé, Président du CESIN.

YesWeHack et le CESIN vous donne donc rendez-vous en 2019 pour une année constructive faite de rencontres et de projets concrets.