Recon First Thinking - Winning Bounties Without Telling the Firewalls

Host: Recon Village, DEF CON 33
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Duration: 1 hour

Co-presenters Charlie Waterhouse , Nikhil Srivastava , Rohit Grover (Moderator)

OSINT Recon

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.

Kumar Ashwin