"The success of the program helped us boost our cybersecurity in a matter of weeks."
"We take advantage of the triaging services to help with our workload."
"Bug bounty programs are an important part of the modern software development lifecycle."
"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 afraid to know what our vulnerabilities are. That’s not okay."
"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 use every tool in our toolbox to remediate or mitigate them."
"HackerOne has been much more successful at finding problems than general penetration tests have been for us."
"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 overview delivers contextual data across our vulnerability life cycle, allowing us to view trends and patterns over time so we can identify gaps and optimize our program."
"Being able to have issues retested during the same engagement is a game-changer. That’s something that hasn’t been available in the past because traditionally, you didn’t receive the results of a penetration test until after the engagement was over."
“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 and handling payments.”
"One of the best ways for us to augment our internal security team is to work with the white hat community. This was a pain before HackerOne but now is significantly easier."
"Security is not a one-time thing, but a continuous cycle. We know that there are always going to be bugs in software development. As we develop, and as we iterate, we want to make sure security is an active part of that process, and never a roadblock to innovation. The HackerOne bug bounty program allows us to put another cog in the wheel of security."
“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.”
"The program has been successful because of the continued contributions from diverse, talented researchers."