“When security risks in web services are discovered by independent security researchers who understand the severity of the risk, they often lack the channels to disclose them properly. As a result, security issues may be left unreported. security.txt defines a standard to help organizations define the process for security researchers to disclose security vulnerabilities securely.”
Create a text file called security.txt under the .well-known directory of your project.
You are ready to go! Publish your security.txt file.
The main purpose of security.txt is to help make things easier for companies and security researchers when trying to secure platforms. Thanks to security.txt, security researchers can easily get in touch with companies about security issues.
security.txt is currently an Internet draft that has been submitted for RFC review. This means that security.txt is still in the early stages of development. We welcome contributions from the public: https://github.com/securitytxt/security-txt
The security.txt file should be placed under the /.well-known/ path (/.well-known/security.txt) [RFC5785].
The email value is an optional field. If you are worried about spam, you can set a URI as the value and link to your security policy.