Top 5 Takeaways from the 2021 Hacker-Powered Security Report: Industry Insights

HackerOne's 2021 report provides industry-wide insights into bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure trends: customer program adoption grew 34%, reported vulnerabilities rose 21% (with VDP reports up 47% and pentest reports up 264%), median critical-bug payouts increased to $3,000, median time-to-resolution improved to 26.7 days, and Cross-Site Scripting remained the most common finding while Information Disclosure and Business Logic Errors saw significant increases.