October 2, 2024
The security and integrity of the Holy Cross Energy systems and data is a priority at Holy Cross Energy (HCE). HCE is committed to ensuring the security of the American public by protecting their information. This policy is intended to give security researchers clear guidelines for conducting vulnerability discovery activities and to convey our preferences in how to submit discovered vulnerabilities to us.
This policy describes what systems and types of research are covered under this policy, how to send us vulnerability reports, and how long we ask security researchers to wait before publicly disclosing vulnerabilities.
We encourage you to contact us to report potential vulnerabilities in our systems.
If you make a good faith effort to comply with this policy during your security research, we will consider your research to be authorized we will work with you to understand and resolve the issue quickly, and HCE will not recommend or pursue legal action related to your research. Should legal action be initiated by a third party against you for activities that were conducted in accordance with this policy, we will make this authorization known.
Under this policy, “research” means activities in which you:
Once you’ve established that a vulnerability exists or encounter any sensitive data (including personally identifiable information, financial information, or proprietary information or trade secrets of any party), you must stop your test, notify us immediately, and not disclose this data to anyone else.
The following test methods are not authorized:
Before adding a system or service to the scope of your research, ensure you are permitted or authorized to conduct security testing using that system or service. For example, if you use a managed service provider or software as a service, be sure to confirm that the vendor has explicitly authorized such testing, such as confirming such authority exists in your agency’s contract with the provider or is detailed their publicly available policy. If not, you must work with the vendor to obtain explicit authorization. If it is not possible to obtain the vendor’s authorization, you may not include those systems or services in the scope of your research.
This policy applies to the following systems and services:
Any service not expressly listed above, such as any connected services, are excluded from scope and are not authorized for testing. Additionally, vulnerabilities found in systems from our vendors fall outside of this policy’s scope and should be reported directly to the vendor according to their disclosure policy (if any). If you aren’t sure whether a system is in scope or not, contact us at security@holycross.com before starting your research.
Though we develop and maintain other internet-accessible systems or services, it is our desire and expectation that active research and testing will only be conducted on the systems and services covered by the scope of this document. If there is a particular system not in scope that you think merits testing, please contact us to discuss it first. We will increase the scope of this policy over time.
Vulnerability Information submitted under this policy will be used for defensive purposes only, to mitigate or remediate vulnerabilities. If your findings include newly discovered vulnerabilities that affect all users of a product or service and not solely HCE, we may share your report with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, where it will be handled under their coordinated vulnerability disclosure process. We will not share your name or contact information without express permission.
Holy Cross Energy accepts vulnerability reports at this form or via security@holycross.com.
Reports may be submitted anonymously. If you share contact information, we will make best efforts to acknowledge receipt of your report within three (3) business days.
We do not support PGP-encrypted emails. For particularly sensitive information, submit through our HTTPS web form.
In order to help us triage and prioritize submissions, we recommend that your reports:
When you choose to share your contact information with us, we commit to coordinating with you as openly and as quickly as possible.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Questions regarding this policy may be sent to security@holycross.com. We also invite you to contact us with suggestions for improving this policy.
Version: 1.0
Date: October 2, 2024
Description: First Issuance