5 Hacker-Powered Trends You Need to Know About

The Hacker-Powered Security Report (HackerOne, 2017) analyzes data from 800+ hacker-powered security programs and highlights five key trends: expanding adoption of bug bounties across industries (including IoT and the public sector), rapid initial vulnerability reporting and varied time-to-resolution by industry, significant differences in bounty payouts with top programs paying substantially more, higher resolution rates for public programs versus private ones, and limited but growing adoption of vulnerability disclosure policies among major organizations.