As the Head of Cyber Security & Emerging Threats at PureVPN, Umer Awan emphasizes the importance of security being a default setting, with his primary responsibility being to protect the privacy, security, and anonymity of over 3 million users. With the increasing complexity of multiple platforms, devices, and protocols, PureVPN has partnered with Bugcrowd's massive community of 90,000+ researchers and ethical hackers to hunt down bugs and vulnerabilities. The company aims to scale its security measures further through this partnership, leveraging the collective power of the crowd to quickly identify issues and push internal resources to fix them, ultimately setting new benchmarks in the VPN industry.