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122 The Drupal Security Team With Greg Knaddison and Michael Hess - Modules Unraveled Podcast


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## 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](http://www.twitter.com/Paulenas)

How this latest security release is different from others? Do you have any information if this bug done any harm before release? #MUP122

* aboros @hunaboros

The recent bug was über critical, still only 20/25. What would be a 25/25 bug? #MUP122

* [aboros](http://www.twitter.com/hunaboros)

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? #MUP122

* [Carie Fisher](http://www.twitter.com/cariefisher)

When the latest bug was found? is there a private drupal security group where this was discussed? could we have found out sooner? #MUP122

* [David Hernandez](http://www.twitter.com/davidnarrabilis)

#MUP122 What is the average time from discovery to announcement?

* [Damien McKenna](http://www.twitter.com/DamienMcKenna)

@ModsUnraveled #MUP122 Are there existing stats on how long it takes from initial reporting, to maintainer response, to first patch & fix?

* [Heine Deelstra](http://www.twitter.com/Ustima)

How was SA-CORE-005 (in hindsight) able to be public for so long in the public queue? #MUP122

* [Mark Conroy](http://www.twitter.com/markconroy)

I think the #drupal security team are great. Working extremely hard. (I know, that wasn't a question) #MUP122

* [aboros](http://www.twitter.com/hunaboros)

Are there plans for some sort of bounty program run by DA maybe? #MUP122

* [David Hernandez](http://www.twitter.com/davidnarrabilis)

#MUP122 What kind of work does the security team do besides review code? What is the administrative overhead?

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