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How Intigriti is partnering with Yahoo to elevate bug bounty excellence
The opportunity
When Yahoo, one of the world's most recognized names in digital media and advertising, chose to refine its bug bounty program, Intigriti saw an opportunity to work with a security leader who truly understands the value of proactive defense.
Yahoo connects hundreds of millions of users daily to finance, commerce, gaming, and news through a vast and diverse product ecosystem. Their security team's challenge wasn't attracting vulnerability reports; it was strategically managing the volume and impact of those reports at scale.
Yahoo needed a partner who could help them:
Focus researcher attention on their most critical assets and highest-impact vulnerabilities
Distinguish breakthrough security research from common findings
Transform vulnerability data into strategic security intelligence
Build stronger relationships with the global researcher community
The most important strategy that we found is being human and just expressing appreciation and recognition to the hacker for their work and their findings. As well as reinforcing what the Intigriti staff has already said to them through the triage process. The end goal on all sides is helping the researchers streamline their process so that they can send us more impactful bugs.
Jonathon Robin
Bug Bounty Program Manager
The partnership
Intigriti is proud to support Yahoo's evolution from a high-performing bug bounty program to a strategic security intelligence engine. Together, we've focused on:
Research quality analysis: Helping Yahoo distinguish novel, original security research from publicly known vulnerabilities – adapting quickly to emerging threats while rewarding true innovation.
Intelligence-driven strategy: Turning vulnerability trends into actionable security insights. When patterns emerge indicating systemic issues, we help Yahoo coordinate researcher pauses and transition discoveries to internal teams for holistic remediation.
I see Bug Bounty as kind of like writing a song or composing music, through the process you develop skills and habits and activities that get you into a creative mindset, and then from there it's a matter of honing that skill and getting more in that state of flow to see what you find.
Jonathon Robin
Bug Bounty Program Manager
The impact
Working with Yahoo demonstrates what's possible when a premier security brand partners with Intigriti's platform and expertise. Together, we're hardening Yahoo's attack surface and generating security intelligence that shapes its broader defensive strategy.
Through our partnership, Yahoo gains:
Global research community access: Tapping into the scale and diversity of thousands of skilled security researchers to continuously improve their security posture.
Competitive researcher engagement: Transparent, compelling incentives that attract and retain the highest-caliber submissions from top-tier talent.
Structured, secure collaboration: Formalized engagement processes with clear scope, rules, and safe harbor protections that enable researchers to work confidently.
Gamification and innovation: Crowdsourced vulnerability disclosure enhanced with bonuses and virtual events that engage both professional researchers and passionate security enthusiasts. Learn more here.
At Intigriti, partnering with industry leaders like Yahoo reinforces our mission to transform bug bounty from a tactical tool into a strategic security advantage.
