---
id: 3082
title: "How the Risk-Averse DoD Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hackers"
source_domain: hackerone.com
source_url: "https://www.hackerone.com/blog/how-risk-averse-dod-learned-stop-worrying-and-love-hackers"
published_at: "2019-11-19T20:15:00Z"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "vdp", "roi", "dod", "security-conference", "hacker-powered-security"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3082"
lang: en
---

# How the Risk-Averse DoD Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hackers

## Summary

A Security@ 2019 panel traces how the US DoD embraced hackers: its VDP and bounties surfaced 11,000+ valid vulnerabilities, saved taxpayers $64 million in three years and returned roughly 800% ROI.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackerone.com
- **Published:** 2019-11-19T20:15:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.hackerone.com/blog/how-risk-averse-dod-learned-stop-worrying-and-love-hackers
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3082