As AI-powered vulnerability discovery shakes up the industry, one powerful resource for identifying issues is getting left ignored: the people you work with. Your coworkers aren’t just experts in their domain, they’re deeply knowledgeable about your company’s risks. For them those risks may feel well known and accepted, even if your security team was never officially looped in. These employees are sitting on a proverbial mountain of issues they aren’t telling you about - not due to a lack of care, but a lack of procedure and incentive for reporting bugs. One way to provide them with that reporting structure is to run an Internal Bug Bounty program.

As a bug bounty triager and researcher, the most common type of bug I see is Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR). In their simplest form, IDOR bugs occur when a user provides an ID to the server that they do not normally have access to, and the server accepts it without validation.