Re: SAP Security Contact

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

Thor,

On 2007-01-05 Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
> You guys might want to put that on your web site.  Probably somewhere
> under "Contact Us" so that it is easy to, um, contact you specifically
> for security issues.
[...]
> Something like security () sap com may seem obvious, but it's better if
> you list specific contact info so it can be easily found.

security@ is one of the role mailboxes specified by RFC 2142, so it
really *is* that obvious. However, I agree that despite of this it would
be better practice to put the address on the web site. Even more since
proper use of role mailboxes seems to have become the exception rather
than the rule nowadays.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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