Article: Hacking for good: Leveraging HackerOne data to develop an economic model of Bug Bounties by Kiran Sridhar and Ming Ng
This articles focuses on the speakers research into how bug bounties effect businesses. Though the finance, retail, and healthcare sectors had a minor deviance of 5% from other industries, all industries performed similar. The speakers in the research article established empirical evidence that bug bounties do benefit companies regardless of size. With age these companies start to show less and less vulnerabilities as it becomes harder for white hat hackers to identify bugs. If; however, the company expands its digital footprint, the mitigated risks will be tempered by the additional bugs that will be found through their profile expansion. These patterns, within the trend analysis, of the individual companies, can then be used as a guide post to inform the economics decision made within the company as a means to mitigate future risks.