Bug bounty firm HackerOne Inc. today announced the launch of its first partner program to meet a growing demand for cybersecurity solutions that leverage their global ethical hacker community.

Called PartnerOne, the program is designed to give partners the ability to sell HackerOne solutions through their own channels, reducing commercial barriers for customers wanting to adopt “human-powered security.”

HackerOne’s human-powered security blends the security expertise of ethical hackers with asset discovery, continuous assessment and process enhancement to reduce threat exposure. Its platform hosts more than 2 million ethical hackers, including Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology-certified penetration testers.

PartnerOne primarily supports channel and technology partners, including value-added resellers, solutions providers and referral partners. The program offers partners support to get the most out of HackerOne, including tools such as free online training and enablement, opportunity management, lead source sharing and renewals managers.

“A rapidly evolving threat landscape has driven strong market demand for the adversarial testing skills, services and risk reduction that only ethical hackers can provide,” said John Addeo, vice president of global channels at HackerOne. “Expanding access to HackerOne across the channel enables our growing partner network to build an additional revenue opportunity and support their customers through increasingly complex cybersecurity challenges.”

HackerOne’s lineup of customers includes the U.S. Department of Defense, Adobe Inc., Nintendo Co. Ltd., PayPal Holdings Inc. General Motors Co., Hyatt Hotels Corp., AT&T Inc., Zoom Video Communications Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Snap Inc. and GitHub Inc.

The company is venture capital-backed, having raised $159 million across six rounds, according to Tracxn, including a round of $36.4 million in September 2019. Investors include Valor Equity Partners LP, Benchmark Capital Partners LLC, New Enterprise Associates Inc., Dragoneer Investment Group LLC and EQT Ventures LLC.

HackerOne’s Sean Ryan, senior principal technical product marketing manager, and Will Kapcio, senior sales engineer, spoke with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media Inc.’s livestreaming studio in 2022 to discuss how HackerOne taps the “positive side” of hacking to help companies stay secure:

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