"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 …

"Using the HackerOne platform helps us cultivate (hacker) relationships and complements the GitLab mission that everyone can contribute."

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

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

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

"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."

“No one had done this before take a doll, put in a chip, connect to WiFi and hit an API. Our customers immediately saw the importance of that.”

"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 …

"Our goal was to increase visibility into hidden vulnerabilities and strengthen our overall security posture in a way that complemented our internal efforts."

"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."

“We'll definitely add HackerOne to our security portfolio and leverage hacker-powered security services in the future.”

"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 …

"Using HackerOne saves our security team a large amount of time, but more importantly, it also saves our finance team a lot of trouble. Moving to the HackerOne platform allowed us to automate away all of the financial burdens, which are significant."