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

"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 has been successful because of the continued contributions from diverse, talented researchers."

"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."

"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 …

"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 …

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

"We can’t strive to be a great security team without you! You are part of my team!"

“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.”

"If our bug bounty program can find at least one critical vulnerability per quarter for two or three quarters in a row, we know the program is worth the money we spend on it."

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

"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."