Skills needed to become a Bug Bounty Hunter

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Skills needed to become a Bug Bounty Hunter
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The Bug Bounty program offers rewards to the
users for the successful discovery of bugs in the
network. The race between bug hunters to find
security vulnerabilities as quickly as possible
makes the process even more dynamic. This blog is
curated with the skills required to become a Bug
Bounty Hunter. But before digging up the skills,
lets get a clear understanding of what Bug
Bounty Hunting is?
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• What is Bug Bounty Hunting?
• The term Bug Bounty Hunting means finding
  technical defects in the coding scripts that
  might compromise the security of any application,
  validating and reporting the error to the
  concerned authority. The hunter gets a reward in
  monetary terms and recognition for the work.
• Skills needed to become a Bug Bounty Hunter
• The following are the skills required to become a
  Bug Bounty Hunter
• Cybersecurity skills Bug Bounty hunters should
  possess basic cybersecurity skills such as
  understanding hacking and good computer
  networking and cloud computing knowledge.
• Use of proxy server One of the essential skills
  is using a proxy server which acts as an
  interface between the application server and the
  browser. Bug bounty hunters use mainly three
  proxies Burp Suite, Tamper Data, and Zed Attack
  Proxy.
• Web Hacking skills Most bug bounty programs are
  on web platforms. Bug bounty hunters must perform
  tests on websites to identify the vulnerability.
  Web hacking is the easiest way to provide good
  ROI.
• Web technology Use Web technologies such as
  Cross-site scripting, Insecure Direct Object
  References, and Open Redirect to discover bugs
  and web vulnerabilities.
• Hardcoded credential Use of hardcoded
  credentials or API keys to access web services in
  the mobile applications

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Recon skills The ability to identify new assets
and vulnerabilities is one of the most effective
skills for the bug bounty hunter. Automation
skills Automation skills are beneficial for
automating the repetitive tasks performed by the
bug bounties using programming scripts. Read
Program scripts Reading program scripts like
Java, C, C, etc., helps to leak the information
that can be hidden endpoints, hardcoded secrets,
and insecure front-end logic.  Continuous
learning A bug bounty hunter should possess
steep continuous learning skills to develop and
pursue the latest techniques to find new
bugs. Bug bounty hunters prevent unethical
hackers from identifying bugs in the early
stages. The Bug Bounty program aims to test the
security of companies digital assets. The
vulnerabilities that emerged with the Bug Bounty
hunt are eliminated, resulting in more robust and
secure software. It can be called continuous
security audit improvement and is significant
for researchers to be equipped and planned in Bug
Bounty hunting.

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