Michael Howard's Web Log

I'm heading to TechEd Oz and NZ in a couple of hours to present the following: SEC312 The "Everything Developers Need to Know About Security" Talk Oz: 9/10/2009 15:30-16:45 NZ: 9/14/2009 14:15-15:30 SEC201 Inside the Microsoft Security...

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I’ve been a firm believer of integrating as much security tooling as possible into the development process so developers can get on with developing code and designing solutions rather than having to constantly think about dotting the security “i”s and...

This was fun to write; in fact, other than minor edits I wrote it in a single two hour sitting with my laptop by the pool :) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd727503.aspx

Following close on the heels of security experts Matt Miller , Adam Shostack and Crispin Cowan joining Microsoft, I am pleased to announce that Ken Johnson, AKA Skywing, has joined our group. Ken brings an enormous amount of reverse engineering...

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At this point most of you have heard about the Microsoft SDL and some of activities and deliverables associated with it. However, I still receive a number of questions, specifically, how and where development organizations can start deploying SDL....

David LeBlanc has an excellent write-up of the results (so far) of all the security work the Office guys have been doing over the last few years. Net: about a 50% reduction in vulns!

Volume 5 of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report is now out , highlights include: Security vulnerability disclosures - Microsoft and third-party software Vulnerability Exploits – Microsoft software Browser-based exploits - Microsoft...

Bryan Sullivan and I wrote a couple of articles for this month's MSDN Magazine. If you're not aware, November focuses on Security. The two articles are: Test Your Security IQ Threat Models Improve Your Security Process And there's the Agile...

Over the last year or so, a bunch of us in the SDL team have been working with agile groups across Microsoft to help streamline the SDL for agile methods. Bryan Sullivan wrote a paper for MSDN Magazine explaining where our current throughts lie. Clearly...

Today, SAFECode released an important document entitled, “ Fundamental Practices for Secure Software Development ” aimed at helping software producers create more secure software. The document is unique in that it describes what SAFECode members are...

<sent from Cabo San Lucas Airport - heading back to Austin > Crosstalk has published an article for mine regarding how we use Defense in Depth within the SDL, and in Microsoft in general.

I've been doing this Twitter thing for a while now - I really like it, folks can get a feel for what you're up to each day. If you're interested, you can see what I'm up to by clicking 'Follow' at http://twitter.com/michael_howard

UPDATED : Added IOActive post As many of you have seen today , there's been plenty of press about us opening up the SDL for use by other software developers and releasing our threat modeling tool. For those of you who have no clue what the heck I'm...

SDL alumnus James Whittaker has a blog. I meant to write a note on this weeks ago, but I kinda got busy! Anyway, if you're a tester, or have a passing interest in test, James is one of the best and you should learn from him. He's the author or coauthor...

Scott Hanselman has a look under Chrome's hood and how it uses the new NX/DEP APIs we added to Windows . Scroll about halfway down the article.

I spoke with Kim Cameron a few days ago about Google's single sign-on (SSO) design bug . I wanted his take on the bug because he's one of the best in the area of identity, single sign-on etc etc... his response can only be described as scathing.

Dave Ladd just posted a note about Katie joing the ever-growing SDL team. For you twitter freaks out there she's @k8em0 :) Welcome, Katie...

Close on the heels of David Ross' XSS defense in IE8 beta 2, my boss, Steve Lipner just posted an article looking at XSS filter from an SDL perspective. While I'm on the subject of XSS and Dave, if XSS is an area of interest to you, you really should...

Every once in a while a security bug pops up that really piques my interest, and a new directory traversal bug that affects Apache Tomcat (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2938) most certainly made me take notice because I haven...

Good news! Matt Miller, author of plenty of cutting-edge security research, including my fave “ A Brief History of Exploitation Techniques and Mitigations on Windows ” has joined the Security Science team to work on improved ways to find security vulnerabilities...

I just wrapped up a post over on the SDL blog with some comments about an article on Google's security work.

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