The greatest security story never told -- how Microsoft's SDL saved Windows

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3505545/greatest-security-story-never-told-how-microsofts-sdl-saved-windows/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
06 March 2014

Microsoft has launched a new website to "tell the untold story" of 
something it believes changed the history of Windows security and indeed 
Microsoft itself -- the Software Development Lifecycle or plain 'SDL' for 
short.

For those who have never heard of the SDL, or don't have the remotest idea 
why it might be important, the new site offers some refreshingly candid 
insights to change their minds.

Without buying into the hype, the SDL can still fairly be described as the 
single initiative that saved Redmond's bacon at a moment of huge 
uncertainty in 2002 and 2003. Featuring video interviews with some of its 
instigators and protagonists, the new site offers outsiders a summary of 
how and why Microsoft decided to stop being a software firm and become a 
software and security firm in order to battle the malware that was 
suddenly smashing into its software.

Few outside the firm knew of the crisis unfolding inside its campus but 
not everyone was surprised. Microsoft now traces the moment the penny 
dropped to the early hours of a summer morning in 2001, only weeks before 
it was due to launch Windows XP to OEMs.

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