While all of the recent Microsoft buzz centers on Windows 7, the company made a small but important announcement this week. At TechEd Europe in Germany, Microsoft announced that it has adapted its SDL ...

As a reporter for a publication focused on software development two years ago, I wrote a couple stories about how first software was developed so it did what it was designed to do, then they’d worry ...

In last week's column, I talked to Bruce Schneier about complexity, one of the main reasons it will be hard for computer security to improve in the future. As software becomes more complex, in terms ...

During the next few weeks, English versions of the company's "Simplified Implementation of the Microsoft SDL" and "Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) - Version 5.0" documentation will ...

Microsoft will release on Tuesday guidelines for developers building online applications and for those utilizing the Agile code-development process. The Agile guidelines apply principles from ...

Microsoft on Wednesday offered a progress report on its "Secure Future Initiative" (SFI). The announcement by Bret Arsenault, Microsoft's corporate vice president and chief cybersecurity advisor, ...

Microsoft will soon release tools and methods it has used over the last few years to reduce the number of security problems in its software. Microsoft began to take security seriously around 2001.

Microsoft Corp. said today it will export some of its expertise in writing secure code to developers outside the company with several new initiatives, including ones involving a pair of free tools it ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released a template for applying its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) methodology to agile software development projects built with the Visual Studio development environment.

As software becomes more complex, security only becomes more difficult. More lines of code, indeed, bring greater potential for bugs. At least, that’s one side of the debate. “In general, I wholly ...