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SDL and Filtering

2008-03-13 15:00:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...SDL blog post. Ive been a program manager at Microsoft for almost nine years. In past roles at Microsoft I was the lead program manager for security response in the Windows Sustained Engineering group, and in my last role I was a project manager in the Microsoft Auto group that partnered with Ford Motor Company to create the SYNC device. I...
 
Tags: sdl, sdl requirements, product cycle, product, product team, sdl team, product type, type, code type
 
 
 
 
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"Walking" with the SDL - Part 1

2008-07-18 16:55:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...SDL . I used the imagery of learning to crawl, walk and run as a way to provide some basic starting points that would move your organization toward implementing a version of Microsofts Security Development Lifecycle (SDL In this series I am going to talk about Walking with the SDL. Walking is the point where your security development...
 
Tags: development, secure development practices, development culture, security development practices, sdl, security, security practices, perform security analysis, application security
 
 
 
 
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Recent Symantec and IBM vulnerabilities, giblets, banned APIs and the SDL

2008-01-04 23:37:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...SDL hardens Microsoft products, we are seeing attackers move elsewhere Third, I like to think about how the SDL might have caught the bugs. There is always a chance to learn from these occurrences, and we sometimes make tweaks to the SDL after vulnerabilities are discovered on other platforms or third-party code. And because the SDL is far...
 
Tags: linker sdl requirements, sdl requirements, ibm, sdl, requirements, symantec, bugs affect ibm, bugs, sdl refers
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...SDL could help contribute towards societys need for trustworthy computing in a very visible and important application Lets start with the Source Code Review of the Sequoia Voting System . Two examples from the executive summary are interesting Cryptography . Many cryptographic functions are implemented incorrectly, based on weak algorithms...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Is Microsofts SDL Working?

2008-05-16 11:05:09 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...SDL) is the main product of its Trustworthy Computing Initiative, launched from the now-famous Bill Gates memo in 2002. Six years into the initiative, Microsoft surely must be reaping the benefits of, for example, the well-publicized security training every developer went through So, how do we determine whether the SDL is working? Microsoft...
 
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Is Microsoft???s SDL Working?

2008-05-16 11:05:09 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...SDL) is the main product of its Trustworthy Computing Initiative, launched from the now-famous Bill Gates memo in 2002. Six years into the initiative, Microsoft surely must be reaping the benefits of, for example, the well-publicized security training every developer went through So, how do we determine whether the SDL is working? Microsoft...
 
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"Crawling" Toward SDL

2008-03-06 22:13:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...SDL into their development lifecycles, this "crawl" phase toward full adoption of SDL is very important. Usually some person in an organization picks up on the principles of SDL and is ready to roll them out immediately. However, that person usually is faced with competing interests that complicate full adoption: the team is mid-stream in...
 
Tags: sdl, security, perform security analysis, application security, application, applications security, security issues, issues, non-microsoft sdl engagements
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft SDL Process in detail

2008-04-09 19:13:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...SDL and I think we have done a reasonably good job. Michael Howard has written some pretty interesting pieces on a wide variety of subjects; bug post-mortems, philosophical notes and the like. Adam Shostack did a fabulous job on the threat modeling series ; Eric Bidstrup took a deeper look at the perceived vs. real benefits of the Common...
 
Tags: sdl, microsoft sdl, sdl process, microsoft, sdl guidance, guidance, secure, secure software development, development
 
 
 
 
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Walking with the SDL Part 2

2008-07-21 16:56:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...SDL. In Part One , I provided a snapshot of Crawling and discussed getting management approval. In Part Two, I will cover a couple more Walk components: expanding security training and formalizing requirements This blog gives us a place to talk about our experiences from using the SDL here at Microsoft and hopefully provide useful information...
 
Tags: define security requirements, security requirements, requirements, security, security development lifecycle, development lifecycle, security pulse, perform security analysis, principles
 
 
 
 
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SDL and the XSS Filter

2008-08-27 15:35:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...SDL blog team why arent we talking about the new XSS Filter feature on the SDL blog? Bryan and Jeremy said something like thats a mitigation that only applies to specific clients and a subset of attacks. So we didnt cross-reference IEs XSS Filter post on the SDL blog at the time. Instead, I agreed to write a subsequent post about the...