The security research community makes GitHub safer for everyone. That’s the simple idea behind our bug bounty program. For more than a decade, researchers from around the world have helped us find and fix vulnerabilities before they could be exploited, and we’ve worked hard to be a program worth their time. Today, we’re sharing some meaningful changes to how the program works. These decisions comes after months of reflecting on our program, analyzing what’s happening across the industry, and thinking about researcher experience. What’s changed and why The program is facing an increasing queue. We have already made adjustments to accommodate the rise in new researchers and the acceleration in efforts of researchers we’ve been working with. We shared these changes in a recent blog post . These changes are about two things: reducing the noise so we can focus on the signal, and building a program that serious researchers find rewarding to participate in.…