As part of its crowdsourced security program, Zoom has recently increased the maximum payout for vulnerabilities to $50,000. Such figures make great headlines and attract new talent in search of the big bucks, but here is a question that begs to be answered: how much is a vulnerability worth?

I have previously found several bugs in Zoom’s products, although these now date back several years, to when the company’s crowdsourced security program was a fledgling enterprise.