Security Center:Best practices for setting security message recipients

You can add a contact as a recipient for security messages. The contact can then receive security notifications by email or internal message, depending on the notification method.

1. Log on to the Alibaba Cloud Message Center.

2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Message Settings > Common Settings.

3. Click Manage Contacts in the upper-right corner. On the message recipient management page, click Add Receiver in the upper-right corner. Enter the name and email address, and then save the contact.

   • Name: The name of the message contact. The name can be up to 20 characters long.

   • Email: The email address that is used to receive message notifications.

   • Occupation: Set this to the job title of the contact for easy identification.

   Important

   A contact must be authenticated before they can receive messages. The system automatically sends an authentication message to the specified email address. The contact must promptly complete the authentication according to the instructions in the message.

4. Return to the Common Settings page. Find Security message and click Modify in the Actions column for the target message type. The Modify Message Receiving Configurations page appears.

   Note

   • Security Notice: This message type covers cloud products such as Security Center, Anti-DDoS, and Web Application Firewall. If a contact subscribes to Security Notice, they receive the corresponding notifications for all related cloud products.

     Examples include security alerts from Security Center, web tamper-proofing alerts, container firewall alerts, AccessKey pair leak notifications, DDoS attack event notifications from Anti-DDoS, and notifications from Web Application Firewall about domain names without an ICP filing or security events labeled as Security Control.

   • If the contact needs to provide more emergency support, you can also subscribe the contact to Notifications about Illegalness and Prohibition and Account Security Alert.

     • Notifications about Illegalness and Prohibition: Notifications about penalties for illegal operations performed using Alibaba Cloud service resources.

     • Account Security Alert: Security alert notifications for the current Alibaba Cloud account and its RAM users, such as notifications for AccessKey pair leak risks.

5. On the Contact tab, select the check box next to the contact, and then click Save.

6. On the Common Settings page, in the row for the message type, select the check boxes in the Internal Messages and Email columns to set multiple notification methods.

If the new contact's name appears in the Contact column of the subscription list, the contact is successfully added. The recipient configuration takes effect immediately, and the contact can receive notifications for the subscribed security messages.