Bug bounty programs in Cybersecurity - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Understanding Bug Bounty Programs

📖 Scenario: You are learning about cybersecurity and want to understand how companies find and fix security problems. Bug bounty programs are one way companies invite people to find bugs in their software and get rewards.

🎯 Goal: Build a simple list of bug bounty programs, add a reward threshold, filter programs by reward, and finalize the list for sharing.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a dictionary of bug bounty programs with exact names and reward amounts

Add a reward threshold variable to filter programs

Use a dictionary comprehension to select programs with rewards above the threshold

Add a final note about the filtered programs

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Bug bounty programs help companies find security problems by inviting ethical hackers to test their software and report bugs for rewards.

💼 Career

Understanding bug bounty programs is useful for cybersecurity roles, ethical hacking, and software security testing.

1

Create the bug bounty programs dictionary

Create a dictionary called bug_bounty_programs with these exact entries: 'AcmeCorp': 5000, 'CyberSafe': 3000, 'SecureNet': 7000, 'DataShield': 2000, and 'NetGuard': 4500.

Cybersecurity

# Create the bug_bounty_programs dictionary with exact entries
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use curly braces to create a dictionary with the exact company names as keys and reward amounts as values.

2

Add a reward threshold variable

Add a variable called reward_threshold and set it to 4000.

Cybersecurity

bug_bounty_programs = {
    'AcmeCorp': 5000,
    'CyberSafe': 3000,
    'SecureNet': 7000,
    'DataShield': 2000,
    'NetGuard': 4500
}
# Add the reward_threshold variable below
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Just create a variable with the exact name and assign the number 4000 to it.

3

Filter programs with rewards above the threshold

Use a dictionary comprehension to create a new dictionary called high_reward_programs that includes only the entries from bug_bounty_programs where the reward is greater than reward_threshold. Use program and reward as the loop variables.

Cybersecurity

bug_bounty_programs = {
    'AcmeCorp': 5000,
    'CyberSafe': 3000,
    'SecureNet': 7000,
    'DataShield': 2000,
    'NetGuard': 4500
}
reward_threshold = 4000
# Create high_reward_programs dictionary below
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use dictionary comprehension with program, reward in bug_bounty_programs.items() and filter with if reward > reward_threshold.

4

Add a final note about the filtered programs

Add a variable called final_note and set it to the string 'Programs with rewards above 4000 are listed.'

Cybersecurity

bug_bounty_programs = {
    'AcmeCorp': 5000,
    'CyberSafe': 3000,
    'SecureNet': 7000,
    'DataShield': 2000,
    'NetGuard': 4500
}
reward_threshold = 4000
high_reward_programs = {program: reward for program, reward in bug_bounty_programs.items() if reward > reward_threshold}
# Add final_note variable below
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Just assign the exact string to the variable final_note.