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

"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 is a well-known platform across the information security community which aggregates the most successful bug bounty programs to date."

"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 …

"We need to move to a world. Where all companies providing internet services and devices adhere to a vulnerability disclosure policy."

"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."

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

“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.”

"HackerOne also played a crucial role in cutting down the noise so we could focus only on the valid issues."

"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 …

"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."

"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."