The bet sounded reckless: give hackers permission, set a bounty, and listen. One Pentagon pilot and hundreds of thousands of validated vulnerabilities later, HackerOne is trying to turn that human network into a continuous, AI-assisted security system.
Bugcrowd turned an awkward corporate question - how do you invite strangers to attack your software safely? - into a managed marketplace. Its next wager is that machines should cover the map while human hackers chase the strange paths through it.