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UK software industry - alive and kicking
News SDL The UK software industry is alive and kicking - despite many claims to the contrary. But more needs to be done to help young software companies if the UK wants to create its own Google or Microsoft. [23 Oct 2009]
Apple's Mac OS 'lagging behind Vista on security'
News Its Software Development Lifecycle (SDL) program - designed to build security into the software--has become the model for the industry. Microsoft puts "much more effort into auditing their code, the entire... [27 Aug 2009]
Investigating the Security Development Lifecycle at Microsoft
White Paper This paper will walk through the phases of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) and examine how the SDL is currently put into practice on a daily basis in the development of Microsoft's... [12 Feb 2009]
Threat Modeling at Microsoft
White Paper A key component of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) is threat modeling. SDL program manager Adam Shostack discusses Microsoft's approach to threat modeling as follows: "One has a very... [12 Feb 2009]
The Microsoft Security Org Chart
White Paper Microsoft's global security team keeps the SDL and tools up to date to mitigate recent threats and works with security researchers and even hackers to stay up to date on the state of the art. Microsoft has built an... [12 Feb 2009]
Security Education at Microsoft
White Paper In 2002, Microsoft introduced the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), which infuses security and privacy into the software development lifecycle of Microsoft products. To build secure products, any group of developers... [12 Feb 2009]
MSDN Webcast: More Secure Online Services Powered by the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (Level 300)
White Paper Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) is well known for its security success stories with flagship Microsoft box products like Windows Vista, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and SQL Server 2008. However, the... [09 Dec 2008]
MSDN Webcast: Security Development Lifecycle Threat Modeling for Developers (Level 200)
White Paper Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Threat Modeling is a proven methodology for finding security issues at the design phase. In this webcast, the attendee will learn how a software-centered approach to threats... [09 Dec 2008]
Using UML Models for the Performance Analysis of Network Systems
White Paper In the past SDL and Petri nets have been the most popular FDTs for the purpose. The automated functional and performance analysis of communication systems specified with some Formal Description Technique has long been... [03 Dec 2008]
A UML-Based Design Methodology for Real-Time and Embedded Systems
White Paper This paper presents a system level design method for embedded real - time systems combining the informal strengths of UML with the formal strengths of SDL. The fast growing complexity of today's real time embedded... [03 Dec 2008]
Renault goes multilingual
Case Study Using technology from global information management specialist, SDL, the French car manufacturer has translated technical and service information into local languages for many of its overseas dealers. [06 Jun 2008]
Is Windows Vista Really 50% to 87% More Secure Than Windows XP?
White Paper Via the SDL, the Redmond Company attempted to bulletproof Vista as much as possible, making it "Secure by Design, Secure by Default, Secure in Deployment and Communication. Essentially, the SDL was set... [12 Jan 2008]
Ensuring a Good Night's Sleep for 5 Million International Customers
White Paper Best Western worked with SDL to achieve their objectives much faster and at dramatically lower cost than otherwise possible. Best Western, the world's largest hotel chain, wanted to better meet the needs of more than 5... [06 Sep 2007]
Microsoft to hunt 'new species' of bugs
News We will be revising that information in the SDL process and redoing the threat-modelling system to make sure we are looking for this kind of attack or anything similar to it. But Gartner's MacDonald said Microsoft should... [10 Jan 2006]
SDL to speed up compliance for pharma firm
News Translation software and services provider SDL has won a £300,000 contract with pharmaceutical GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to provide technology that will speed up the product checking process with regulator the European... [09 Jan 2006]