Basically, the goal of the article was to provide empirical evidence to back up the idea that bug bounties, ethical hackers who are brought in to find vulnerabilities, improve cybersecurity in all companies. Also, do they actually help and report all the vulnerabilities and bugs they find during their assessment? Based on the article academics even suggest that bug bounties benefit companies of all sizes in the effort to discover hidden vulnerabilities that may have been overlooked. One idea is that all programmers and hackers are different in the methods and skills they may display which should help find as many vulnerabilities as possible and these bounty programs allow a variety of hackers access to the network to find the holes.
