Bug bounty programs for businesses
Tap into the skills of the global hacker community to uncover high-risk vulnerabilities faster.
What is Bug Bounty?
A bug bounty is a monetary reward given to ethical hackers for successfully discovering and reporting a vulnerability or bug to the application's developer. Bug bounty programs allow companies to leverage the ethical hacking and security researcher community to improve their systems’ security posture over time continuously. Bug bounties can complement existing security controls by exposing vulnerabilities that automated scanners miss, and incentivize security researchers to emulate what a potential bad actor would attempt to exploit.
Workflows that adapt to your development life cycle
The Hackerone Bug Bounty Platform streamlines workflow orchestration across teams to speed response, reduce risk, and scale your bounty program.
- Integrate and automate bug testing with the security and development tools you use today.
- Fix vulnerabilities faster with remediation guidance and retesting capabilities.
- Create automations that trigger actions based on the criticality of vulnerabilities or service level agreements.
Size up potential threats and take action
Our centralized bug bounty platform dashboard shows you which vulnerabilities pose the greatest risk to your organization.
- Monitor the health of your bounty program in real time with insights across the vulnerability life cycle.
- See how your high-severity issues stack up against your industry's norms.
- Access data that classifies and assigns vulnerabilities using Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE).
Skills you need, talent you can trust
Our bug bounty redefines the traditional static, signature-based model of security testing by providing an adversarial perspective on the enterprise IT environment.
- Access experts in cloud, mobile, hardware, IoT and more.
- Select ID-verified and background-checked ethical hackers to cover sensitive internal assets.
- Provide secure, monitored access to sensitive assets using our VPN gateway.
Triage you can count on
HackerOne triage staff communicates with hackers,validates their submissions, removes duplicates, and ranks the remaining vulnerabilities by severity.
- Receive only valid vulnerabilities, eliminate false positives, and streamline remediation.
- Our team manages hacker communications and provides you with actionable reports.
- Fast, accurate, and responsive — just a few words our customers use to describe our triage service.
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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.
The program has been successful because of the continued contributions from diverse, talented researchers, security engineers who triage and guide teams to remediate, and our engineering team that is always enthusiastic to learn from these bugs.
We are a trust based business to an extreme extent. One of the best ways for us to augment our internal security team is to work with the hacker community. This was a pain before HackerOne but now is significantly easier.
Our skilled hacker community is over one million strong—and driven to make the Internet a safer place.
Our skilled hacker community is over one million strong—and driven to make the Internet a safer place.
Our skilled hacker community is over one million strong—and driven to make the Internet a safer place.
Our skilled hacker community is over one million strong—and driven to make the Internet a safer place.
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