Security News > 2020 > October > Microsoft Paid Out Over $374,000 for Azure Sphere Vulnerabilities

Microsoft on Tuesday shared the results of its three-month-long Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge and the company says it has paid out more than $374,000 to participants.

The Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge, announced in May, invited security researchers to find vulnerabilities in Azure Sphere, Microsoft's IoT security solution, which the tech giant designed to provide end-to-end security across hardware, operating system and the cloud.

Microsoft teamed up with several cybersecurity solutions providers for the Azure Sphere bug bounty challenge, including Avira, Baidu, Bitdefender, Bugcrowd, Cisco, ESET, FireEye, F-Secure, HackerOne, K7 Computing, McAfee, Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler.

"We strongly believe that this challenge and upcoming expansions of the Azure Security Lab will help to continue to protect our cloud and Azure Sphere, and we look forward to expanding the resources available to security researchers to support high impact research."

Microsoft pointed out that bug bounty hunters can continue to report vulnerabilities found in Azure Sphere through the Azure Bounty Program, which offers rewards of up to $40,000.

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