Agencies will use the shared service to receive security feedback from white-hat hackers around the world.

HackerOne beat its competitors to federal cloud services authorization, allowing it to deliver the kind of vulnerability disclosure platform sought for agencies governmentwide.

The largest payout from the bug bounty totaled $20,000.

DOD tapped cybersecurity firms Synack, HackerOne and Bugcrowd to provide vetted hackers for continual assessments of defense websites, hardware and physical systems.

The industry — which basically hires and sells the services of freelance hackers who are paid to find weaknesses in systems or products — is seeing a period of rapid growth, in part because of early successes in the federal market.

Bugcrowd CEO Casey Ellis talks with FedScoop about the burgeoning bounty business: "Easier access to more talent to solve problems."