Beyond the Noise: How HackerOne Cuts Through the Noise in the Age of AI

AI is changing how vulnerabilities are found. That part’s clear. What’s less obvious is how platforms and security teams will adapt to handle the volume, and the noise, that comes with it.

We’re seeing more AI-assisted submissions. Some are excellent. Others are… less helpful. And while this shift is real, here’s the thing: most of our customers aren’t seeing a drop in quality. Most still get the same strong results they always have. That’s not luck. It’s a product of how the HackerOne Platform is built.

The Role of Triage in Maintaining Signal

As one of the most advanced offensive security platforms, we've built systems that scale with change while protecting quality. More than 85% of all HackerOne programs are using our managed triage service, and that rate is even higher for our largest enterprise customers like Adobe and Delivery Hero.

Every submission that passes through HackerOne Triage is validated for:

• Reproducibility
• Business impact
• In-scope relevance

That means customers don’t have to deal with AI hallucinations, common misconfigurations, or copy/paste write-ups that don’t show actual risk.

We also just made HackerOne Triage a lot faster and smarter. Hai Triage combines AI agents with human security experts to process more findings with higher precision. And it's not static. Our system learns from the submissions it processes, continuously improving over time.

Signal in Context: The Rise of Insight Agent

We’ve also launched Insight Agent, which adds another layer of value by enriching vulnerability reports with actionable context. It’s part of Hai: HackerOne AI—a powerful system of AI agents that accelerates workflows across the HackerOne Platform. Embedded directly in the report view, Insight Agent plays the role of a seasoned security analyst who remembers every vulnerability report across your program. It reviews each new finding against historical reports to uncover patterns, flag risk early, and recommend what to do next. It doesn’t just tell you what the bug is. It helps you understand what it means and how to act on it.

For busy teams, that’s a big deal. Insight Agent streamlines validation by cutting through noise and surfacing the vulnerabilities with significant business impact. It connects the dots across historical reports, flags recurring patterns, and identifies high-risk trends in real time without forcing people to dig through every report. The result: shorter validation cycles, stronger prioritization, and less manual effort.

“Hai Insight Agent, cut our validation time from 20 minutes to just 5. By replacing manual steps with clear context, we validate faster, clarify impact, and stay aligned. The attack path diagram helps us clearly communicate risk and drive action with the right teams.”

— Connor Knabe, Application Security Architect, Veterans United Home Loans.

Together, Hai Triage and Insight Agent represent a step-change in how we manage volume, quality, and scale. But they’re just the beginning.

Next, we're building an agent that collaborates with researchers, leading them through the submission process while optimizing their work for fast intake and validation. This intelligent layer stops noise right at the gate by providing feedback to researchers about out-of-scope issues, ineligible bugs, and low-quality reports to ensure only actionable findings make it through. 

The Future of Vulnerability Elimination

At HackerOne, our vision goes beyond reducing noise—we’re building a future where signal is amplified by design. This vision aligns closely with the goals of Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM): continuously identify, validate, and act on the highest priority risks.

The idea is simple: use AI agents not just to detect vulnerabilities, but to validate findings with real security context, prioritize what matters most, and drive remediation. These aren’t generic AI models—they’re purpose-built agents guided by real security data and workflows. And they don’t work alone. Ongoing human feedback from the world’s largest and most talented community of security researchers keeps them grounded.

Here’s what that can look like:

• Confirming that a finding is real and reproducible
• Understanding whether it actually matters to the business
• Suggesting fixes based on known patterns
• Closing the loop faster than any manual workflow could

Why Now

As AI lowers the barrier to entry for researchers and attackers alike, platforms must evolve. Increased volume and complexity can overwhelm traditional workflows and slow down response times. Meanwhile, security teams face mounting pressure to reduce risk faster, with fewer resources.

The shift toward CTEM makes this more urgent—organizations are moving from episodic testing to continuous, risk-based validation. Ongoing validation is now essential to separate real threats from noise, ensure controls are effective, and drive faster, more confident decisions.

Now is the moment to invest in systems that not only keep pace with AI-driven change but actually strengthen because of it.

Why HackerOne

No other platform combines:

• The world’s largest and most diverse security researcher community
• Millions of real-world vulnerability submissions
• Triage by AI agents with expert human-in-the-loop oversight
• A track record of validating security signal at enterprise scale

With tools like Insight Agent and Hai Triage already live, we’re putting this vision into practice. HackerOne is uniquely positioned to operationalize CTEM. Our platform brings together the threat intelligence, human creativity, and AI-driven validation needed to continuously test and adapt to a changing attack surface. And while we won’t reveal every detail of what’s next, we can say this: we’re building a future where AI doesn’t just accelerate workflows—it makes security measurably better.

We’re not replacing human ingenuity. We’re scaling it.

So What’s Coming Next

We’re continuing to build, and what’s next will make it even easier for customers to cut through the noise and act faster on what matters. Here’s the direction:

• Accelerated find-to-fix workflows
• AI agents that help detect, validate, prioritize, and remediate
• Tighter collaboration and seamless workflows between humans and machines
• And less time spent sifting through noise

AI is fundamentally shifting how security work gets done. But this isn’t just about adapting to a new wave of tooling—it’s about staying focused on what’s important: faster fixes, smarter prioritization, and higher-impact outcomes.

As we continue to evolve the HackerOne Platform, our goal is clear: to accelerate every phase of the find-to-fix lifecycle. That means helping security teams move from detection to validation to remediation more efficiently, without sacrificing trust or quality. It means giving researchers and customers intelligent tools that make the work easier, faster, and more accurate. And it means living up to our mission: empowering the world to build a safer internet—even as AI reshapes how security challenges are solved and what defenders need to stay ahead.