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

“Ensuring you’ve established the appropriate staffing levels and support structure are key to success when starting a bug bounty program, This includes security engineers to review, validate and triage the findings who can work across the development groups to test and mitigate.”

“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 chose HackerOne as it not only connected us to an existing community of seasoned security researchers but also offered productivity features that automated aspects of the bug bounty triage process."

"At Qualcomm, the security researchers we have worked with are not motivated by financial gains. Instead, they want to help us make our products more secure in order to protect more people."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"Bug bounty programs are an important part of the modern software development lifecycle."

"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 …