"When the same internal teams are testing an application for a long time, they lose that ‘fresh-eye’ perspective that often helps in finding interesting bugs."

"HackerOne also played a crucial role in cutting down the noise so we could focus only on the valid issues."

"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."

"We know that state-sponsored actors and black-hat hackers want to challenge and exploit our networks. We know that. What we didn't fully appreciate before this pilot was how many white-hat hackers there are who want to make a difference, who want to help keep our people and our nation safer."

"We know for a fact that sending a wide variety of hackers into a wide environment will result in something meaningful. It is a fact. We cannot hire every amazing hacker and have them come work for us, but we can do these crowdsourced bug bounties. I’m done with being …

"The ideal end-state is that bug bounties become a regular, common tool in securing all IT assets across the Department of Defense. We will always have security vulnerabilities. We can approach that reality one of two ways: we can deny it, or we can be proactive, open to it and …

"The program has been successful because of the continued contributions from diverse, talented researchers."

"Hai gives us actionable suggestions that have eliminated busy work, so we can complete tasks faster and think strategically about continuously improving our overall cybersecurity posture."

“However, in order to become a trusted partner you need to go further than that. With HackerOne we were able to harness the expertise and skills of a huge hacker community in real time, so we could start applying fixes straight away.”

“HackerOne’s reputation in the bug bounty market was top notch. Their community lends itself to real-world simulation and removes the bias from working with a more traditional vendor. You get pentesters with different backgrounds and areas of expertise, and HackerOne provided the flexibility and assurance we needed to meet budgeting, …

"We need to move to a world. Where all companies providing internet services and devices adhere to a vulnerability disclosure policy."

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

“If you're going into a bush blind, you don't know what's going to happen.”

"The process of manually creating credentials was tedious and time-consuming, and it often ended up in our program lacking valid credentials, especially since many of them expire after a month. This prompted us to create automated scripts and leverage HackerOne’s API to automate the process. This automation was created after …

"The program overview delivers contextual data across our vulnerability life cycle, allowing us to view trends and patterns over time so we can identify gaps and optimize our program."