Neighborhood at HackerOne: What’s to Come

From Jessica Sexton – Director of Neighborhood,

Three years in the past, I discovered my dwelling at HackerOne. My main focus was to revamp our Dwell Hacking Occasions program. Dwell Hacking Occasions are an incredible embodiment of what makes HackerOne so particular to a lot of our neighborhood. These occasions thrive on collaboration, competitors, and human connection – with safety groups, product groups, in addition to together with your friends and different safety specialists.  All through my time right here, I’ve overseen many crucial initiatives at HackerOne behind the scenes and formally took over the management of the workforce in November of 2021. I’m grateful for such an incredible workforce that has a visual ardour to assist each hacker grow to be their finest selves. In some methods, the final three years have passed by in a blink of a watch. In some methods, they’ve been a number of the longest and most impactful years of my life.

HackerOne isn’t only a neighborhood that extends to our hackers; there’s a true sense of household internally as effectively. We’ve had transitions, after all, as each firm does – however our connections stay sturdy no matter the place somebody’s journey takes them. Identical to with our hackers; we have a good time our wins, assist one another by means of alternatives and supply teaching and steerage in each potential approach. Nevertheless giant, our neighborhood and {industry} are extraordinarily tight-knit, as we discover our paths proceed to cross personally and professionally! The Neighborhood Crew has grown exponentially in 2022 with wonderful new faces and strategic new roles, additional increasing the household that’s HackerOne.

1. Celebrating and Rewarding Excellence: Advocating for one another and our hackers is a core part of the Neighborhood workforce and HackerOne as a complete. To successfully advocate for a person or entity, we should be aggressively proactive about celebrating their wins and empowering one another. An enormous a part of that’s celebrating successes and supporting each other by means of losses, irrespective of how huge or small!
2. Transparency:  Defaulting to disclosure isn’t just a HackerOne core worth, it’s one thing that the neighborhood workforce lives and breathes every day. I’m a agency believer that if you’re open, clear, and set acceptable expectations on the onset – frustrations and battle can be minimized.
3. Increasing Alternatives: We’re working arduous to be extra seen concerning the totally different alternatives which are accessible and how one can apply or qualify for every of them. As well as, we’re working closely with our product groups to convey to you many new options and focus areas for the 12 months!

This 12 months, you possibly can count on:

Hacker Success Crew

This 12 months can be launching a Hacker Success workforce. This can be a devoted workforce that may instantly oversee our hacker neighborhood. We’re beginning small; supporting teams of hackers with excessive achievements and continued engagement lately. With time, a lot of you’ll have a devoted pleasant face on the different finish of the display screen. This workforce will:

• Be taught & Perceive your particular person targets, each on-platform and off. With this, they may be capable of assist join you to the proper alternatives on the proper occasions, whether or not it’s a particular program, problem, pentest, talking engagement, mentor, or a brand new ability you’re hoping to be taught extra about.
• Have a good time the wins! This could possibly be a private objective or a public #h1-five, however no matter your motivators are, we’re right here to cheer you on each step of the way in which.
• Advocate for you in all features of the platform: program and triage interactions, mediations or assist points, product suggestions, and many others. Does that imply that hackers can be proper in each scenario? No. We’re all human. Does that imply that we are going to be certain that all hackers are given truthful and equitable therapy? Completely.

Our objective is to raised personalize hacker experiences. I’m a giant fan of fixed suggestions and iteration, so we’ll be revisiting the processes and playbooks typically as this workforce develops.

Content material

Oh my, will you be getting extra content material this 12 months! Now we have sorely been missing communications focused to, advocating for, and celebrating our hacker neighborhood. With this, you possibly can count on issues like:

• We’re going to be standing up a brand new content-specific program! This can be a formal announcement of our Content material Creator’s Guild! An effort to find creators from throughout our neighborhood and provides them a platform, assist develop their gentle abilities, and incentivize our neighborhood to share what they know!
• A hacker e-newsletter: HackerOne’s e-newsletter isn’t simply info, it’s a problem! We’ll maintain our hackers apprised of updates to our platform, spotlight their achievements, present skilled recommendation on hacker-specific psychological well being challenges, and share technical content material/details about partnerships we’re constructing in your profit!
• We have a new community section on the HackerOne website! It will host tales about you and your fellow bug hunter’s journey with us. Content material will embrace collaborations with instructional platforms, gentle abilities coaching, product bulletins, characteristic updates, and technical content material to maintain you updated in your path ahead!
• Connections: to extra HackerOne groups and one another. You may count on extra AMAs, panels, and connection factors with all aspects of HackerOne this 12 months. With this, you’ll have extra alternatives to have interaction and take part in fireplace chats, extra talking/streaming alternatives, and a bigger platform for offering suggestions.

H1 Assessments

HackerOne is now within the pentest sport, supporting net purposes, APIs, cell purposes (iOS and Android), and community pentests! With hackers from 25 international locations, our neighborhood has greater than 38 totally different cybersecurity certifications throughout our pentesters. They common greater than 5 years of expertise every – our pentesters have earned over $2.6m within the final 12 months alone. Keep tuned for future communications to be taught how one can apply!

Dwell Hacking Occasions (LHE)

We’re again, child!! Again in individual, that’s. This 12 months has an action-packed agenda comprising each digital and in-person occasions. In 2020, I published a blog post that outlined how hackers qualify for a dwell hacking invitation. Very (very) quickly, you possibly can count on an up to date and much more detailed overview of our Dwell Hacking construction, invitation algorithms, and what every of you are able to do to qualify.

H1-2204: This was our first occasion of 2022, our third occasion partnering with the fantastic PayPal workforce, and a beautiful success! Take a look at our recap video to relive the highlights and remember to congratulate the award winners!

H1-303-2022: Our return to in-person kicked off in Denver, Colorado! We had been joined by an impressive buyer and a few new (and veteran!) faces to make H1-303 an occasion to recollect. With the final two years of digital every thing, we took the time to embrace some new insurance policies and practices whereas additionally including some enjoyable and private additions to the occasion construction. As Could is Psychological Well being Consciousness Month, we hosted a dwell panel with members of HackerOne, the shopper workforce, and researchers to dive into all issues psychological well being.

H1-512-2022: As we proceed our return tour of dwell hacking occasions in-person, we’re headed to Austin, Texas! With an unimaginable buyer, we’re persevering with to take the learnings from our earlier occasions to create distinctive experiences all year long. As June is Satisfaction Month, HackerOne and our prospects are partnering as much as assist coordinate and pack care packages for a neighborhood LGBQT+ youth charity, OutYouth.org. With new venue kinds, activations, and a metropolis identified for being distinctive identical to dwell hacking occasions, we are able to’t wait to Maintain Hacking Bizarre in Austin!

H1-702-2022: We are able to’t return to in-person occasions with out Vegas! Vegas is a dwell hacking occasion like no different. Extra targets, extra hackers, extra hacking!! Maintain tabs on Twitter and Insta to search out all the small print.

Model Ambassador Program

We’re increasing our Model Ambassador Program to have much more cities represented. HackerOne Model Ambassadors are leaders who’ve a ardour to convey the neighborhood collectively of their native metropolis or area. As Model Ambassadors, these wonderful leaders are working their native golf equipment representing their metropolis bringing the neighborhood collectively by organizing hacking meetups, and workshops, attending native conferences collectively and collaborating in CTFs and different instructional or industry-focused occasions.

• Do you assume you might have what it takes to guide your local people and signify HackerOne? Overview the factors and an outline of our Model Ambassador Program here. Functions can be open throughout the month of June! Control socials for bulletins.

New and Revamped Sponsorship Applications

New and Revamped Sponsorship Plans: A devoted sponsorship sequence particularly focused at cybersecurity or STEM packages at Universities, schools, or excessive colleges. We’ll present monetary and organizational assist for lecturers, membership organizers, or scholar organizers to host a meetup targeted on neighborhood constructing and schooling. The subjects can fluctuate – issues like CTFs, workshops, hacking meetups, discuss tracks, and many others. are all acceptable!

• If you need to host, please full this form and tell us about your group, audience, and occasion specifics. Keep in mind, good occasions take time and planning! We extremely suggest submitting your utility at the very least 2 months upfront of your occasion launch.

Summer time Sequence

Mentorship Mondays aren’t going away! They’re simply taking a break from the warmth whereas we launch a Summer Series; you’ll nonetheless hear from our wonderful hackers, HackerOne, and possibly even see a couple of dwell streams from LHEs!

And eventually, I’d like to introduce the wonderful Community Team. For those who ever want us, be happy to achieve out to community@hackerone.com!