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

"Having a bug bounty program is not an option, it's essential. Scaling internal testing can only go so far, working with the community helps uncover issues we may not have."

"HackerOne’s program overview provides deeper visibility into our program health. Our team can identify specific periods where targets are being hit and missed, and course-correct as necessary."

"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."

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

“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.”

"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."

"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."

“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, …

"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."

"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."

“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.”

"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."