Zdi

The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) was created to encourage the reporting of 0-day vulnerabilities privately to the affected vendors by financially rewarding researchers. At the time, there was a perception by some in the information security industry that those who find vulnerabilities are malicious hackers looking to do harm. Some still feel that way. While skilled, malicious attackers do exist, they remain a small minority of the total number of people who actually discover new flaws in software.Incorporating the global community of independent researchers also augments our internal research organizations with the additional zero-day research and exploit intelligence. This approach coalesced with the formation of the ZDI, launched on July 25, 2005. The main goals of the ZDI are to: