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> In many regards, certificate authorities are audited comprehensively against industry-specific audit standards. Certificate authorities also routinely get hac
by woodruffw 4y ago
> In many regards, certificate authorities are audited comprehensively against industry-specific audit standards. Certificate authorities also routinely get hacked. Despite this, not a single certificate authority runs a bug bounty program, and of the major CAs, only GlobalSign and Let’s Encrypt even offer a security.txt to help disclose issues. Only an annual penetration is generally required of CAs.
These feel like the wrong metrics: the attackers who compromise CAs don't generally overlap in skillsets with people who engage in bug bounty programs, and (AFAIK) `security.txt` has had no significant adoption in the broader community.
- iancarroll 4y agoSeems like you are saying that bug bounty researchers focus more on application security issues and not other types of security, which is certainly true, but [some % of] breaches occur via appsec issues and they’re what bit e-Tugra here.