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

“The third party inspection of code adds a layer of confidence to ownCloud’s over 8M users and administrators. Enterprises know their deployment has undergone the rigors of ownCloud QA, their own testing, and the bounty-driven testing of security experts resulting in more secure file sharing for many environments.”

"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 …

"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."

"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 …

"If our bug bounty program can find at least one critical vulnerability per quarter for two or three quarters in a row, we know the program is worth the money we spend on it."

"The (HackerOne) triage team is like an extension of our own team. Worth every penny."

“Their bug bounty program is world-class, a top HackerOne researcher. “They value our input and care about security across their entire ecosystem.”

"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 …

"In addition to some amazing, creative submissions, we’ve received some incredible feedback from researchers. In just a few short months, we’ve used that feedback to make substantial changes to our scope, payments, and transparency. We want hackers to challenge and educate us, and build a trusting and respectful relationship that …

"The success of the program helped us boost our cybersecurity in a matter of weeks."

"HackerOne has been much more successful at finding problems than general penetration tests have been for us."

"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."