Following on from its private Bug Bounty initiative, AMD has announced that it is working with Intigriti to launch a new public Bug Bounty Program, enabling researchers across the ecosystem to submit vulnerabilities to further safeguard its products for customers and the IT ecosystem as a whole.
In support of the program, AMD will be offering monetary rewards based on the severity and impact of the reported issues.
Product security is of critical importance to AMD and this collaboration with academics, security researchers and ethical hackers, alongside the promotion of security research, is an important step in continuing to improve the security of AMD products. Additionally, AMD encourages security researchers to work with the team to help mitigate and coordinate the disclosure of potential security vulnerabilities.
Bug bounty programs are crucial for many tech companies, especially those with products and services that are used widely and could affect millions of customers. AMD is no stranger to bugs, with some of the recent ones including the AMD Ryzen 7000 processors melting in their sockets (2023), severe BIOS security vulnerabilities from the original Zen to the latest Zen 4 processors (2024), and the unintended overclocking limits set on the RX 7900 GRE GPUs (2024). A bug bounty program could help AMD discover these potential issues before they are widely known and become full-blown news.
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