🛡️ Security Through Transparency and Vulnerability Management
🎯 Enterprise-grade Security Posture and Incident Response

📋 Document Owner: CEO | 📄 Version: 1.0 | 📅 Last Updated: 2026-02-20 (UTC)
🔄 Review Cycle: Quarterly | ⏰ Next Review: 2026-05-20

This security policy establishes vulnerability disclosure and incident response procedures for the Citizen Intelligence Agency platform, implementing Vulnerability Management and Incident Response Plan from Hack23 AB's ISMS framework.

Our security approach demonstrates our commitment to transparency and operational excellence, ensuring that vulnerabilities are managed systematically with documented response times and coordinated disclosure processes.

— James Pether Sörling, CEO/Founder

This project is under active development, and we provide security updates for the latest version only. Please ensure you're using the latest version of the project to receive security updates.

The Citizen Intelligence Agency maintains strong security practices:

• ✅ SLSA Level 3 - Supply chain security with build attestation
• ✅ Automated Security Scanning - SAST (CodeQL), SCA (OWASP Dependency Check), DAST (ZAP)
• ✅ OpenSSF Scorecard - Continuous security posture assessment
• ✅ Comprehensive Testing - Unit, integration, and E2E security tests

Evidence:

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• Security Overview
• Quality Reports

We take the security of the Citizen Intelligence Agency project seriously. If you have found a potential security vulnerability, we kindly ask you to report it privately, so that we can assess and address the issue before it becomes publicly known.

A vulnerability is a weakness or flaw in the project that can be exploited to compromise the security, integrity, or availability of the system or its data. Examples of vulnerabilities include, but are not limited to:

• Unauthenticated access to sensitive data
• Injection attacks (e.g., SQL injection, cross-site scripting)
• Insecure defaults or configurations
• Insufficient access controls
• Remote code execution

Please follow these steps to privately report a security vulnerability:

1. On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the cia repository.
2. Under the repository name, click Security. If you cannot see the "Security" tab, select the dropdown menu, and then click Security.
3. In the left sidebar, under "Reporting", click Advisories.
4. Click Report a vulnerability to open the advisory form.
5. Fill in the advisory details form. Provide as much information as possible to help us understand and reproduce the issue.
6. At the bottom of the form, click Submit report.

After you submit the report, the maintainers of the Citizen Intelligence Agency repository will be notified. They will review the report, validate the vulnerability, and take necessary actions to address the issue. You will be added as a collaborator and credited for the security advisory.

Upon receipt of a vulnerability report, our team will:

1. Acknowledge the report within 48 hours
2. Validate the vulnerability within 7 days
3. Develop and release a patch or mitigation within 30 days, depending on the complexity and severity of the issue
4. Publish a security advisory with a detailed description of the vulnerability and the fix

We appreciate your effort in helping us maintain a secure and reliable project. If your report results in a confirmed security fix, we will recognize your contribution in the release notes and/or a public acknowledgment, unless you request to remain anonymous.

Thank you for helping us keep the Citizen Intelligence Agency project and its users safe.

The Citizen Intelligence Agency security practices are part of Hack23 AB's comprehensive Information Security Management System (ISMS):

For complete details on how CIA implements security controls:

• 🛡️ Security Architecture: SECURITY_ARCHITECTURE.md - Defense-in-depth security design
• 🔮 Future Security Architecture: FUTURE_SECURITY_ARCHITECTURE.md - Security roadmap
• 🎯 Threat Model: THREAT_MODEL.md - STRIDE and MITRE ATT&CK analysis
• 📋 ISMS Compliance Mapping: ISMS_COMPLIANCE_MAPPING.md - Framework-to-control mapping
• ⚖️ CRA Assessment: CRA-ASSESSMENT.md - EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance

• 🔐 Information Security Policy - Overall security governance
• 🔍 Vulnerability Management - Security testing and remediation
• 🚨 Incident Response Plan - Security incident management
• 🛠️ Secure Development Policy - Development security standards
• 🎯 Threat Modeling Policy - STRIDE and MITRE ATT&CK
• 🏷️ Classification Framework - Business impact and risk assessment

• 🛡️ Security Architecture - Current security implementation
• 🔮 Future Security Architecture - Planned security enhancements
• 🎯 Threat Model - STRIDE analysis and attack trees
• 📋 CRA Assessment - EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance
• 🗺️ ISMS Compliance Mapping - Complete ISMS policy mapping
• 📅 End-of-Life Strategy - Security patching and support lifecycle
• 💰 Financial Security Plan - Cost and security implementation

• 🔄 CI/CD Workflows - Security-hardened CI/CD pipelines
• 🤝 Contributing Guidelines - Secure contribution process
• 📜 Code of Conduct - Community standards

• 🤝 Third Party Management - Supplier security assessment
• 🌐 ISMS Transparency Plan - Public disclosure strategy
• 🔓 Open Source Policy - Open source governance

📋 Document Control:
✅ Approved by: James Pether Sörling, CEO
📤 Distribution: Public
🏷️ Classification:
📅 Effective Date: 2026-02-20
⏰ Next Review: 2026-05-20
🎯 Framework Compliance: