The first step in helping protect your company from an attack or premature vulnerability release to the public is a Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP).

A vulnerability disclosure policy, or VDP, is intended to give ethical hackers clear guidelines for submitting potentially unknown and harmful security vulnerabilities to organizations. A VDP allows you to have a clear communication mechanism in place for the people who are interested in reporting vulnerabilities in your products and services.

A vulnerability disclosure policy, or VDP, is intended to give ethical hackers clear guidelines for submitting potentially unknown and harmful security vulnerabilities to organizations. With a network of over 1 Million hackers, get the insights from the source and take a forward thinking approach to your business' security.

Hackers have risen to the challenges presented by the past year, from supporting businesses through rushed digital transformations to committing more time to protecting healthcare providers. 

According to a recent study, by 2022, crowdsourced security tests will be employed by over 50% of enterprises, up from less than 5% in 2018. However, is this growth actually making application security better? Are new tools and platforms keeping up with the speed of code deployments? Are organizations finding more critical vulnerabilities while reducing time spent completing pen tests? 

The concept of hacking as a viable career has become a reality, with 18% of survey respondents describing themselves as full-time hackers, searching for vulnerabilities and making the internet safer for everyone.

The 2020 Hacker Report is a benchmark study of the bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure ecosystem, detailing the efforts and motivations of hackers from the 170 countries who represent the HackerOne hacker community and are working to protect the 1,700 companies and government agencies on the HackerOne platform.