The Air Force was able to identify more than 460 security vulnerabilities in its virtual data center with the help of a bug bounty facilitator company. Bug bounty programs, or "hackathons," have become a tool for the Defense Department to gain more insight about its cyber vulnerabilities. HackerOne announced in April the results of its "Hack the Air Force 4.0" challenge, where more than 60 hackers from 21 countries participated in a four-week long challenge to seek and disclose vulnerabilities within the Air Force Virtual Data Center. The data center is "a pool of cloud-based servers and systems," according to HackerOne, a San Francisco-based company. The challenge began with an opportunity for participants to assess Air Force assets. At the end of the assessment period, a live hacking event took place, said Antoine Williams-Baisy, technical program manager II at the company.
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