Intel has announced the launch of Project Circuit Breaker to expand its Bug Bounty program. The new initiative will assemble a "community of elite hackers" who will run down bugs in "firmware, hypervisors, GPUs, chipsets and more."
Director, Intel Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) and Bug Bounty, Katie Noble stated:
Project Circuit Breaker is possible thanks to our cutting-edge research community. This program is part of our effort to meet security researchers where they are and create more meaningful engagement. We invest in and host bug bounty programs because they attract new perspectives on how to challenge emerging security threats – and Project Circuit Breaker is the next step in collaborating with researchers to strengthen the industry’s security assurance practices, especially when it comes to hardware. We look forward to seeing how the program will evolve and to introducing new voices to the meaningful work that we do.
By hosting targeted time-boxed events on particular new technologies and platforms, Project Circuit Breaker will boost the tech giant's existing open Bug Bounty program, offering training and producing opportunities for further hands-on partnerships with Intel engineers.
With a team of 20 researchers who received systems with Intel Core i7 processors (previously, Tiger Lake), the first event of the latest resource, Camping with Tigers, is already in progress. The event will end in May, with bounty multipliers being given at three milestones for eligible vulnerabilities.
Vice President and General Manager of Client Security Strategy & Initiatives at Intel, Tom Garrison stated:
Bug bounty programs are a powerful tool to continuously improve the security of our products. Camping with Tigers – our first event under Project Circuit Breaker – brings together world-class security researchers and our own product engineers to deepen testing and improve resiliency on our 11th Gen Intel Core processors. As we aim to develop the most comprehensive security features, we also realize the incredible value of deeper collaborations with the community to identify potential vulnerabilities and mitigate them for the ongoing improvement of our products.
Project Circuit Breaker aims to develop a unified security community that will have all the tools and training to address the largest security concerns of the industry. Intel will work towards focusing the talents of the community toward areas of high impact with new challenges, training, and unprecedented access to early products and Intel engineers.
1 Comment - Add comment