Published: Fri, 10/17/14
The Drupal Security Team
- What type of people are on the Drupal Security Team?
- https://security.drupal.org/team-members
- Mostly coders, some project managers, core maintainers
- What does the security team do?
- We fix issues in drupal
- Resolve reported security issues in a Security Advisory
- Provide assistance for contributed module maintainers in resolving security issues
- Provide documentation on how to write secure code
- Provide documentation on securing your site
- Help the infrastructure team to keep the drupal.org infrastructure secure
- What doesn’t the security team do
- projects without stable releases
- Site support
- Set policy around security with the security working group.
- Is there a D7 security team and a D8 security team with different people? (What about Drupal 6)
- How can others get involved?
- What was the recent bug that was fixed
Questions from Twitter
- Paulius Pazdrazdys
How this latest security release is different from others? Do you have any information if this bug done any harm before release? - aboros
The recent bug was über critical, still only 20/25. What would be a 25/25 bug? - aboros
Do you notify any high value targets before SA is sent out? Is the list of those public? Can one be part of this privileged group? - Carie Fisher
When the latest bug was found? is there a private drupal security group where this was discussed? could we have found out sooner? - David Hernandez
What is the average time from discovery to announcement? - Damien McKenna
@ModsUnraveled Are there existing stats on how long it takes from initial reporting, to maintainer response, to first patch & fix? - Heine Deelstra
How was SA-CORE-005 (in hindsight) able to be public for so long in the public queue? - Mark Conroy
I think the #drupal security team are great. Working extremely hard. (I know, that wasn't a question) - aboros
Are there plans for some sort of bounty program run by DA maybe? - David Hernandez
What kind of work does the security team do besides review code? What is the administrative overhead?