# Kicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Researcher spotlights and enhanced incentives

DevFeed: [Kicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Researcher spotlights and enhanced incentives](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/kicking-off-cybersecurity-awareness-month-2025-researcher-spotlights-and-enhanced-incentives-67459.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://github.blog/security/vulnerability-research/kicking-off-cybersecurity-awareness-month-2025-researcher-spotlights-and-enhanced-incentives/>)

Author: Shilpa Kumari

Published: 2025-09-26T15:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [GitHub Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/github-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Application Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/application-security.md>), [Cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cybersecurity.md>), [bugcrowd bug bounty](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bugcrowd-bug-bounty.md>)

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## AI overview

For Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025, GitHub is offering a 10% bonus on eligible valid vulnerability submissions for Copilot Coding Agent, GitHub Spark, and Copilot Spaces during October. GitHub also highlights a security research conference for women and plans researcher spotlights.

## Source excerpt

For this year's Cybersecurity Awareness Month, GitHub's Bug Bounty team is excited to offer some additional incentives to security researchers!