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In 2020, a bug bounty researcher named Bhavuk Jain found a vulnerability in Apple Sign In that could have allowed account takeover for any Apple ID user. Apple paid a $100,000 bounty. The alternative, an attacker finding it first, would have cost Apple immeasurably more in breach costs, legal liability, and reputation damage.
Bug bounty programs invite external security researchers to find and report vulnerabilities in exchange for monetary rewards. The economics are straightforward: you pay only for valid findings (zero wasted spend on false positives), you get access to the diverse skills of thousands of researchers (no single internal team has every specialization), and the cost scales with results.
HackerOne has over 1 million registered researchers and has facilitated $300 million+ in bounty payouts. Bugcrowd has 500,000+ researchers. Together they serve the US Department of Defense, Google, Microsoft, Shopify, and thousands of other organizations.
The real value is coverage. Your internal security team has 5-20 people with specific skill sets. A bug bounty program gives you access to thousands of researchers with expertise in web, mobile, API, IoT, cloud, and cryptography. A researcher in Argentina might find an OAuth token leakage that your US-based team missed because they were focused on injection.