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Clarify that Red Team reports are "open to GitLab"

Chris Moberly requested to merge cmoberly-main-patch-e18b into main

Why is this change being made?

💡 Provide a detailed answer to the question on why this change is being proposed, in accordance with our value of Transparency.

This small change clarifies that Red Team reports are available internally, and are not restricted to just security. This is in line with our detailed description of how we deliver these reports at GitLab.

The output of a Red Team operation is valuable to everyone at GitLab, and we want to continue sharing these reports with all team members. Red Team reports do not contain the content of unresolved SIRT incidents, which are already specifically mentioned as "security only".

I believe the handbook wording I've removed here is just outdated, and was written before our team built the processes to deliver these reports.

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  • Provided a concise title for this Merge Request (MR)
  • Added a description to this MR explaining the reasons for the proposed change, per say why, not just what
    • Copy/paste the Slack conversation to document it for later, or upload screenshots. Verify that no confidential data is added, and the content is SAFE
  • Assign reviewers for this MR to the correct Directly Responsible Individual/s (DRI)
    • If the DRI for the page/s being updated isn’t immediately clear, then assign it to one of the people listed in the Maintained by section on the page being edited
    • If your manager does not have merge rights, please ask someone to merge it AFTER it has been approved by your manager in #mr-buddies
    • The when to get approval handbook section explains the workflow in more detail
  • For transparency, share this MR with the audience that will be impacted.
    • Team: For changes that affect your direct team, share in your group Slack channel
    • Department: If the update affects your department, share the MR in your department Slack channel
    • Company: If the update affects all (or the majority of) GitLab team members, post an update in #whats-happening-at-gitlab linking to this MR
Edited by Chris Moberly

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