Case Study: Snapchat strengthens user trust in AWS cloud with HackerOne

How HackerOne Helps Snap Ensure User Trust in AWS Cloud

Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat with over 300 million daily users, needed to ensure the highest level of security and user trust as it scaled its operations on AWS. Their challenge was to proactively identify and address security vulnerabilities throughout their software development lifecycle without hindering the pace of innovation. To meet this challenge, Snap engaged HackerOne to implement a bug bounty program.

HackerOne provided a platform that managed and orchestrated Snap's bounty program, leveraging its global community of ethical hackers to find novel vulnerabilities. The solution successfully identified critical, unknown risks, allowing Snap to remediate issues before they were exploited. This partnership not only saved Snap time and money but also augmented their hiring efforts by sourcing talent from the hacker community, ultimately helping to secure their assets in the AWS cloud.

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Nick Reva

Security Engineering