security.txt
Sign in to savesecurity.txt is an accepted standard for website security information that allows security researchers to report security vulnerabilities easily. The standard prescribes a text file named security.txt in the well known location, similar in syntax to robots.txt but intended to be machine and human readable, for those wishing to contact a website's owner about security issues. security.txt files have been adopted by Google, GitHub, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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- Technology standard.title
- security.txt
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- Example security.txt file
- Technology standard.status
- Published
- Technology standard.year_started
- 2017
- Technology standard.first_published
- September 2017
- Technology standard.version_date
- April 2022
- Technology standard.authors
- Edwin Foudil
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security.txt is an accepted standard for website security information that allows security researchers to report security vulnerabilities easily. The standard prescribes a text file named security.txt in the well known location, similar in syntax to robots.txt but intended to be machine and human readable, for those wishing to contact a website's owner about security issues. security.txt files have been adopted by Google, GitHub, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
== History ==