Recognition Badges for Threat Bounty Members

As it was announced earlier, SOC Prime introduced digital badge recognition for Threat Bounty members. 

As the first stage of the initiative, the badges were issued to Threat Bounty Program members who demonstrated outstanding results in the number of publications and whose Threat Bounty detection rules, categorized according to parameters mentioned further in this article, gained exceptional interest from the users and customers of the SOC Prime Platform.

The following SOC Prime badges were issued for the publications and achievements since the launch of the Threat Bounty Program in May 2019 till the end of the Year 2023:

• Recognized Author of Detection Rules – All Time TOP 20 Threat Bounty detection content authors by the number of publications
• Customer Choice – All Time TOP 10 Threat Bounty members whose detection content was chosen by customers of the SOC Prime Platform
• Windows Defender – All Time TOP 3 Threat Bounty members whose detection content for detecting cyber threats on Windows systems was chosen by users of the SOC Prime Platform
• Linux Defender – All Time TOP 3 Threat Bounty members whose detection content for detecting cyber threats on Linux systems was chosen by users of the SOC Prime Platform

Also, we issued recognition badges for authors whose threat detection rules addressing specific Tactics as per MITRE ATT&CK® Enterprise Framework were chosen by users of the SOC Prime Platform. Badges were issued to three Threat Bounty content authors whose rules were mostly downloaded on the SOC Prime Platform for each Tactic:

• Initial Access Detection Master
• Execution Detection Master
• Persistence Detection Master
• Privilege Escalation Detection Master
• Defense Evasion Detection Master
• Credential Access Detection Master
• Discovery Detection Master
• Lateral Movement Detection Master
• Collection Detection Master
• Command and Control Detection Master
• Exfiltration Detection Master

In addition, we held an online event on SOC Prime’s Discord server, where we explained the details about the issued badges, mentioned some insights on the upcoming major changes to the Threat Bounty Program, and shared information about the Threat Bounty Badges that can be earned for the continuous contributions:

• Trusted Contributor – Threat Bounty Program members who have achieved 10 successful publications of their threat detection rules via the Threat Bounty Program in 2024
• Excellent contributor – Threat Bounty Program members who have achieved 50 successful publications of their threat detection rules via the Threat Bounty Program in 2024
• Outstanding contributor – Threat Bounty Program members who have achieved 100 successful publications of their threat detection rules via the Threat Bounty Program in 2024

The following Threat Bounty members have already received the Trusted Contributor badge for achieving ten successful publications of their rules via the Threat Bounty Program in 2024:

Davut Selcuk

Mustafa Gurkan KARAKAYA

Nattatorn Chuensangarun

Emre Ay

Furkan Pehlivanoglu

We are happy that participation in the Threat Bounty Program helps the members develop their detection engineering skills, expand their expert background, and promote their professional development. We truly hope that this recognition of contributions of threat detection content, backed by SOC Prime’s technology and expertise, can contribute to building strong practical experience in detection engineering for members of the cybersecurity community.