The US Division of Protection (DoD) has launched a web site to accompany its Hack the Pentagon (HtP) program.
The Chief Digital and Synthetic Intelligence Workplace (CDAO) Directorate for Digital Providers (DDS), Craig Martell, unveiled the web site final Thursday. It is going to be a useful resource for DoD organizations, distributors and safety researchers to know conduct a bug bounty.
The positioning may even allow partnerships with the CDAO DDS workforce to help and take part in DoD-wide bug bounties.
“With the HtP web site launch, CDAO is scaling a long-running program, which traditionally supplied companies on a project-by-project foundation, by providing the Division higher entry to classes discovered and greatest practices for internet hosting bug bounties,” Martell mentioned.
“The web site helps equip DoD to run steady bug bounties as half of a bigger complete cybersecurity technique.”
Learn extra on the HtP program right here: US to Launch Third Iteration of ‘Hack the Pentagon’ Bug Bounty Program
The DDS additionally defined that, past its academic functions, the brand new web site additionally goals to interact and recruit technical expertise.
“By Hack the Pentagon, we’re constructing a worldwide expertise pipeline for cybersecurity consultants to contribute to our nationwide protection exterior of conventional authorities profession paths,” commented Jinyoung Englund, performing director of CDAO DDS.
In response to a weblog put up revealed by the Directorate final Thursday, Hack the Pentagon has supported over 40 bug bounties since its launch in 2016. Greater than 1400 moral hackers participated in these applications and have collectively found roughly 2100 vulnerabilities.
The second iteration of the Hack the Pentagon program was unveiled in 2018. The DDS turned a part of the CDAO group in June 2022.
The launch of the brand new Hack the Pentagon web site comes months after the DoD up to date its CMMC 2.0 program. The adjustments had been mentioned in a latest visitor put up on Infosecurity by Matthew Hodson, CIO of Valeo Networks.
