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. Coding problems in its software opened the door to an intense new wave of malicious worms, or self-propagating programs that crashed e-mail servers, created botnets and stole user passwords, causing costly damage to businesses.
In response, Bill Gates launched the Trustworthy Computing Initiative in early 2002. Two years later the company had refined what it calls the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), or its processes to ensure it writes near-bulletproof code.
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