Bug Bounty from Scratch: Your First 90 Days as a Security Researcher

A day-by-day plan for your first 90 days of bug bounty — honest from the first page.

This book does not promise income. Bug bounty pays only for valid, in-scope reports, and most beginners earn nothing in their first months. What this book gives you instead is a real system: how platforms work, how to read a brief like a contract, where the legal lines are, how to practise safely in labs, and how to hunt your first bug classes properly — IDOR, XSS, authentication issues, information disclosure — with proof that does no harm.

Inside (25 chapters, day by day):

• Days 1–7: platform, briefs, scope, the law, your safe lab, accounts, and the nightly review habit

• Days 8–30: how the web works, recon, the lab path, and choosing your first program

• Days 31–63: the manual testing method and your first real hunts

• Days 64–90: writing reports that get accepted, proof and evidence craft, talking to triage, surviving the dry weeks

A standalone full-edition book in the Secure The Future Series, by Rohit Kumar Chandoliya (Cheakstar). For learning in authorised labs and programs only.