The history of the bug bounty dates to 1983 when Hunter & Ready offered a Volkswagen Beetle to anyone who finds a vulnerability in the Versatile Real-Time Executive operating system.
Since then, several well-known companies have been using their Bug Bounty program, e.g., Apple, Google, Facebook.
In 2020, HACKTIFY created the first Bug Bounty platform in Central and Eastern Europe so that Hungarian businesses could also get acquainted with this service.
Patrik Cseh, Csaba Mészáros and Péter Hirling are the founders of HACKTIFY.
We have more than 10 years of professional background in the field of IT security (Hungarian Armed Forces, financial sector, cybersecurity consulting companies, multinational financial company, information security at NATO); we gained experience in data protection, ISO 27001, GDPR projects, and antivirus software certification, but we were also present at a large telecommunications company as a vulnerability management specialist.