Hi Jarek,

I have personally never done much on security, neither followed a lot of
blogs/learning materials regarding
it so far. I want to explore this untouched territory by myself, but I am
not so sure if this will be the right forum for "experimentation".

So, not so sure if I cut the criteria here.

Thanks & Regards,
Amogh Desai

On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 2:14 AM Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> wrote:

> * we have to know the candidate  - they have to be either a committer
> or someone who has contributed a lot and we know who the person is.
> Stakeholders and community members that we know and can trust might
> also nominate some people who have security experience and already
> work on security (especially if they work on Airflow) outside of the
> community - we know our stakeholders have dedicated security people
> who have a good experience and they are not known to us simply due to
> "secrecy" around security.
>
>
> I'd say you both fulfill the criteria :)
>
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 9:22 PM utkarsh sharma <utkarshar...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hey Jarek,
> >
> > I'm very interested in security-related stuff, but not sure if I fit the
> > bill. :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Utkarsh
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 1:43 AM Ryan Hatter
> > <ryan.hat...@astronomer.io.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > > What are the criteria? Just curious, as I'm quite confident I do not
> fit
> > > the criteria 😀
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 9:21 AM Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > >
> > > > TL;DR; In short - we are looking for candidates to join our security
> > > > team. Please send a message to priv...@airflow.apache.org if you
> would
> > > > like to be added to the team.
> > > >
> > > > Following this:
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.rst#periodic-security-team-rotation
> > > > I wanted to make a call for new security team members. Some of the
> > > > people will rotate out the team as well (we want to keep the team
> > > > small and lean and focused).
> > > >
> > > > First of all I have a great pleasure - in the name of the community -
> > > > to thank for all the work the current security team has accomplished.
> > > >
> > > > When we started discussions at the beginning of last year we had ~ 20
> > > > outstanding issues, some of them older than 6 months and the process
> > > > of fixing them was not really cool. Today we have 0 (yes - 0)
> > > > unhandled issues. And we had >50 issues raised since so we not only
> > > > managed to fix the backlog but also we handled incoming issues. We
> > > > have much better understanding on how to handle them, we've improved
> > > > and clarified our security model, and we even have some standard ways
> > > > on handling and responding to similar issues when they come. And we
> > > > have learning material for new team members to take a look at.
> > > >
> > > > What's going to happen now?
> > > >
> > > > We want to partially rotate the team - first of all to give the
> > > > experienced and recognized community members an opportunity to learn
> > > > and participate in our security process, but also to distribute a bit
> > > > more knowledge on handling security issues in the community.
> > > >
> > > > I personally believe that security will become increasingly more
> > > > important in the years to come - things like Cyber Resilience Act
> > > >
> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/cyber-resilience-act
> > > > will create a lot of opportunities to make use of the knowledge you
> > > > can gain by becoming part of security team so I think it's also good
> > > > to have an experience in it in a professional portflolio.
> > > >
> > > > What does it mean to be in a security team?
> > > >
> > > > * You will be subscribed to receive reports from security researchers
> > > >
> > > > * You will take part in the discussions when we assess the issues -
> > > > whether they are real issues, what severity they have, how we can
> > > > address them
> > > >
> > > > * You will take part in discussing on how we can improve current
> > > > processes and even how to improve our security model  and whether we
> > > > need to apply some systematic fixes
> > > >
> > > > * You will possibly volunteer to fix or review, or talk to other
> > > > community members to fix it  help with handling some of the security
> > > > issues
> > > >
> > > > * The traffic on our security list (after we got through the backlog)
> > > > is moderate to small - there are maybe 1 new issue a week (usually
> > > > less than one) and we have occasional discussions that might be more
> > > > frequent
> > > >
> > > > * For the new team members - we have learning materials to get to
> > > > understand how things work - I will prepare some "on-boarding"
> > > > packages.
> > > >
> > > > * This is not a permanent "assignment" - as you see now we are doing
> a
> > > > partial rotation to get some people out and bring people in, it's ok
> > > > to leave the team if you have no time to take part and also if you
> > > > want to leave room for others. We just introduced it and we might
> want
> > > > to do ad-hoc rotation or more frequent regular rotation in the
> future.
> > > > This will also depend on the needs we will have.
> > > >
> > > > Few things for potential candidates:
> > > >
> > > > * we have to know the candidate  - they have to be either a committer
> > > > or someone who has contributed a lot and we know who the person is.
> > > > Stakeholders and community members that we know and can trust might
> > > > also nominate some people who have security experience and already
> > > > work on security (especially if they work on Airflow) outside of the
> > > > community - we know our stakeholders have dedicated security people
> > > > who have a good experience and they are not known to us simply due to
> > > > "secrecy" around security.
> > > >
> > > > * we do not publicly announce who is in the team - also a bit due to
> > > > secrecy. But PMC members know who is in it.
> > > >
> > > > * joining the team requires signing an ICLA with the Apache Software
> > > > Foundation https://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf where you state
> > > > who you are. For obvious reasons.
> > > >
> > > > * PMC members might join as they wish. People who are not in the PMC
> > > > (including committers) have to get a PMC approval. PMC members also
> > > > have access to the secur...@airflow.apache.org archive, so they can
> > > > follow the discussions there if they want, they are just not part of
> > > > the default team to get the notifications
> > > >
> > > > * Release managers are members of the security team by default as
> they
> > > > need to announce and manage the CVE announcements fixed in the
> > > > releases
> > > >
> > > > * we want the team to be lean and "small-ish" - so we might just
> > > > select a few people and thank others if we have too many candidates.
> > > > We currently have 15 people in the team. I think 10-15 is a good
> > > > number to keep.
> > > >
> > > > Feel free to reach out to priv...@airflow.apache.org if you would
> like
> > > > to apply and you think you fulfill the criteria :).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > J.
> > > >
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