DICT Safe Harbor Initiatives

Empowering security researchers to report vulnerabilities responsibly—without fear of legal retaliation—while fostering collaboration between the government, private sector, and the ethical hacking community to strengthen the nation’s cyber resilience.

Timeline

  1. Community Engagement

    DICT Secretary Henry Aguda engaged the hacking community at ROOTCON 19, outlining the government’s Safe Harbor and Bug Bounty initiatives.

    PNA: DICT enjoins ‘ethical hackers’ to help protect digital PH ↗
  2. Initial Draft (ROOTCON Labs)

    ROOTCON released an initial draft of the Safe Harbor and Bug Bounty guidelines.

    GitHub: ROOTCONLabs/safe-harbor ↗
  3. DICT Workshop

    The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), through its Cybersecurity Bureau, conducted a focused workshop to thoroughly discuss the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) and the corresponding Department Order (DO) related to the national cybersecurity initiatives.

  4. DICT Cybersecurity CERTCON 2025

    ROOTCON founder Dax Labrador discusses Bridging Hackers and the Government

    Facebook: DICT Cybersecurity CERTCON 2025 ↗

Built on trust. Secured by collaboration.