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Note from the Editor
Welcome to July's Security Newsletter! If you are an IT professional who holds some responsibility for security and privacy within your organization, you are probably already aware of the importance of keeping all of your software up to date. If you aren't, you need to look at the data in the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report on vulnerability disclosures across the entire software industry. One look at the data should be enough to convince you that all your software vendors should be giving you security updates for their products.
Whether your organization purchases software from an independent software vendor (ISV) or develops software in-house, you'll want software that has been developed with a security assurance process that helps to reduce the number and severity of security vulnerabilities. The security assurance process we use at Microsoft is called the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). For example, Microsoft Office 2010 that was recently released was developed using the SDL; this video will provide you with an overview of how the SDL helped improve Office 2010 security.
If you are interested in learning more about the SDL and how your organization can leverage it, check out this video that will quickly bring you up to speed and, of course, the SDL website.
Also, if you aren't already aware, Microsoft is sponsoring the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas again, where we have several speakers talking about technical security issues. I hope to see you there!
Best regards,
Tim Rains, Group Product Manager,
Microsoft Trustworthy Computing
Follow the Microsoft Security Response team on Twitter @MSFTSecResponse for the latest information on the threat landscape.
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