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

“It's about maintaining trust with our merchants. Entrepreneurs are running their businesses and they don't want to worry about security, so we have to ensure any issue gets addressed. HackerOne provides a return on our investment through its large community of talent and by taking care of administration, vetting researchers …

"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."

"Working with HackerOne, we have had a solid return on investment while reducing risk. Zebra has scaled our security program across the different product offerings within HackerOne from security assessments for product releases, bug bounty for continuous testing, and a mechanism for third-party security researchers to submit vulnerabilities."

"We have been on a mission to transition from being a hardware company to also providing software and services for our customers. Certainly, that changes one's security lens. It's a completely different environment to have cloud-based, retail execution software available for enterprise-level organizations compared to having hardware- based printers installed …

"The HackerOne program overview page helps sell the value of having a hacker-powered security program in place. We are able to understand changes in report workload to ensure our team is equipped to meet demand, drill down into key vulnerability trends across our program, and socialize key metrics to our …

"AI red teaming allows us to explore the possibilities of what attackers might achieve—not just what’s likely. Working with HackerOne has shown us that human ingenuity often outperforms adversarial datasets or AI-generated attacks."

"Hitting $1M in bounties is a badge of honor. It reflects our commitment to valuing the intelligent security researchers who help keep us safe. Bug bounty programs are notoriously difficult to build, but HackerOne’s talented community provides us with the expertise and creativity we need to secure our platform. Our …

“As the world’s first ephemeral messaging platform, our customers unequivocally expect privacy and security from our products. Maintaining these principles to a high bar is vital for our company.”

“We want to see a world where a launch means something regarding security. Buyers banding together to require minimum mandatory bug bounties would send a signal to new companies that they have to secure their users before they can make a sale.”

"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 …

"A vulnerability disclosure program with bug bounties signaled LocalTapiola reaching a new level of security sophistication, not only in the financial services arena, but in the wider cyber security world too."

"Our researcher community’s approach is rooted in curiosity, creativity, and the relentless pursuit of finding flaws others might miss. This mindset is distinct from building and reinforcing technical models, yet it’s an essential complement. While internal teams focus on defending and aligning AI systems, engaging with a community of researchers …

"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."

“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.”