"Our public bug bounty program is as important to the security of our product and company as any other program we run within our Security Team."

“We want to see a world where a launch means something regarding security. Buyers banding together to require minimum mandatory bug bounties would send a signal to new companies that they have to secure their users before they can make a sale.”

"We are employing strategies and programs, like our VDP with HackerOne, with the sole purpose of protecting our customers, their vehicles and their data."

"Every organization has blind spots. Having the hacker community on the other side of the screen looking at those things you’ve missed means you can close those holes."

"AI red teaming allows us to explore the possibilities of what attackers might achieve—not just what’s likely. Working with HackerOne has shown us that human ingenuity often outperforms adversarial datasets or AI-generated attacks."

"Hitting $1M in bounties is a badge of honor. It reflects our commitment to valuing the intelligent security researchers who help keep us safe. Bug bounty programs are notoriously difficult to build, but HackerOne’s talented community provides us with the expertise and creativity we need to secure our platform. Our …

“As the world’s first ephemeral messaging platform, our customers unequivocally expect privacy and security from our products. Maintaining these principles to a high bar is vital for our company.”

"We’ve received a lot of guidance (on working with hackers) from HackerOne and it's been a great experience."

"We have a strong partnership with HackerOne. Since launching the program in 2020, we've deeply valued their support, which has allowed us to greatly expand our program's scope and impact."

"At TikTok, we always want to be proactive rather than reactive. We aim to shift left, finding bugs at an early stage to ensure the safety of our environment before it goes live."

"We have an industry-leading vulnerability disclosure program that protects ethical researchers and partnered with HackerOne to include sensitive vendors in the scope of our bug bounty program to help protect our entire ecosystem. Our hope is that bug bounty programs like ours continue to spearhead a culture of collaboration and …

"The program with HackerOne has surfaced the most interesting results across all of our AI testing and is by far the most cost-effective."

"We take advantage of the triaging services to help with our workload."

"We obviously can’t hire enough engineers to protect against every possible vulnerability, but we can use our bug bounty program to add on-demand expertise where we need it and continuous coverage nearly everywhere else."

"There is a lot of education left to do, both to producers and customers of security-critical code. We hope bug bounty programs becomes an industry-standard, for the sake of security and stability of the entire industry."