"I am always challenging our people to think outside the five-sided box that is the Pentagon. Inviting responsible hackers to test our cybersecurity certainly meets that test"
Ashton Carter
United States Secretary of Defense

"As it is with software developments: bugs occur. Fixing them is most of the time done fairly quickly, but finding them takes up more effort...Because of this, we at the IOTA Foundation have decided to host the very first public bug bounty program..."
Dominik Schiener
Co-founder of IOTA
"In addition to hiring world-class experts, we believe it’s important to get all the help we can from the security research community, too."
Devdatta Akhawe
Security Engineer at Dropbox
"I have seen firsthand how bug bounty programs can transform a company’s security posture. These programs, which invite ethical hackers to uncover and report potential security vulnerabilities, are not just a checkbox in a security policy; they are a strategic imperative. In an era where cyber-attacks are not only frequent but increasingly sophisticated, relying solely on internal teams to find every vulnerability is unrealistic."
Prof. Jason Lau
CISO at Crypto.com, Forbes Tech Council