Kumar Ashwin

[email protected]

Recon First Thinking - Winning Bounties Without Telling the Firewalls

Panel
Recon Village, DEF CON 33 2025-08-09 - 2025-08-09 Las Vegas, NV, USA

What if you could earn bounties without ever touching the app?

This panel explores how top hackers use Recon-First Thinking to silently uncover shadow assets, misconfigured SaaS, and forgotten APIs - all without triggering alerts or waking up firewalls.

Less noise. More signal. Bigger payouts.