Bug Bounty Course in Hyderabad

What Bug Bounty Hunting Is

Companies run programs that pay researchers for reporting security flaws within a published scope. You choose a program, test only what its rules allow, and submit a report. Payment depends on the flaw being real, in scope and not already reported. Our guide to bug bounty for beginners in India explains how programs work.

The Skills Programs Reward, and Where the Course Teaches Them

The Application Security course (HTA-101) is 90 guided hours. It starts with Linux, Windows and networking fundamentals (14 hours), then covers the web and application skills below:

• Web and API fundamentals, mapping and test planning (9 hours). Map an application and its APIs completely, and plan a test that covers every role, endpoint and risk category.
• Authentication, sessions and access control (10 hours). Break login, session and permission controls, including the object, property and function-level flaws most common in APIs.
• Injection and server-side attacks (10 hours). Find, confirm and explain injection and server-side flaws, and show developers exactly how to fix them.
• Business logic, advanced web attacks and GraphQL (8 hours). Test what scanners cannot: business workflows, race conditions, request-level attacks and GraphQL APIs.
• Android application penetration testing (12 hours). Test an Android app end to end: unpack and read it, find insecure storage and components, bypass client-side controls and test its back-end API.
• Thick-client application penetration testing (8 hours). Assess a desktop application and its server: traffic, local storage, binaries and the Windows environment it runs in.
• Secure code review, DevSecOps and AI application security (9 hours). Read code for security flaws, use SAST and DAST tools with judgment, and test AI features for prompt injection and data leaks.
• Capstone assessment (10 hours). Assess unseen targets against the clock, report them professionally and verify the fixes in a formal retest.

Reporting Is Half the Job

A valid bug with a poor report is often rejected or underpaid. In the course every finding is written up with evidence, impact and a fix, and the reports are graded. See the sample graded report and how to write a penetration testing report.

Stay Inside the Law

Testing a website without permission is an offense in India, whatever your intent. Bounty work is legal only inside a program's scope and rules. The course starts with scope and authorization, and you practice on a lab you build. Read is ethical hacking legal in India.

What We Will Not Tell You

• That you will earn a set amount. No course can promise bounties.
• That it is quick. A report can be rejected as a duplicate or as out of scope, so read each program's rules and check what has already been reported.
• That bounties replace a job. The same skills are what employers hire application security testers for, and that is the steadier path.

Topics to Read First

If these are new, start here: OWASP Top 10, Burp Suite for beginners, IDOR, SSRF, JWT security and the OWASP API Security Top 10.

Fees, Format and the Web Hacking Certification

The course is ₹20,000 + GST for 6 weeks, three hours a day on weekdays or four hours on the weekend batch. You can attend 3 to 5 classes free first. If you also want a credential in web hacking, see EC-Council's WAHS at ₹34,000 + GST. For the wider course, see the web application penetration testing course.