During the Standoff cyber battle, the Innostage GC team will deploy a virtual cyber range to help IT security specialists pump up their skills in terms of countering hacker attacks.

Positive Technologies analyzed the largest and most active bug bounty platforms across the globe. The highest demand for services of bug bounty platforms was observed in the following sectors: IT (16%), online services (14%), services (13%), trade (11%), and finance (9%). This global trend largely correlates with the situation in the Russian market. Russian bug bounty programs are mostly used by private businesses serving a large number of customers. Some examples of such businesses are banks, online services, e-commerce players, and IT vendors. Public sector and critical infrastructure organizations could become the main driver of bug bounty initiatives.

On November 22–24, 2022, white-hat hackers and infosec experts will convene once again at the Standoff open cyberbattle. For the tenth time, the infrastructure of the virtual State F will come under a barrage of hacker attacks, while infosec experts will uncover flaws in the infrastructure and figure out how hackers might break in. The event will be streamed live online at standoff365.com.

VK has launched a bug bounty program on The Standoff 365 Bug Bounty, a platform developed by Positive Technologies for uncovering vulnerabilities. A bug bounty program offers rewards to outside researchers for discovering and reporting security flaws before attackers can find and exploit them.