Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle

Short description: Software development process to improve security

The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle is a software development process used and proposed by Microsoft to reduce software maintenance costs and increase reliability of software concerning software security related bugs. It is based on the classical spiral model.

Versions

Version	Release date	Link
1	January 2004	Unreleased
2	July 2004	Unreleased
2.1	January 2005	Unreleased
2.2	July 2005	Unreleased
3	January 2006	Unreleased
3.2	2008-04-15	http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=24308
4.1	2009-06-01	http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=15526
4.1a	2010-04-15	http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=17701
5	2010-05-11	http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=12285
5.2	2012-05-23	http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29884

See also

• Trusted computing base

Further reading

1. Howard, Michael; Lipner, Steve (June 2006). The Security Development Lifecycle: SDL: A Process for Developing Demonstrably More Secure Software. Microsoft Press. ISBN 0735622140. 
2. Howard, Michael; Lipner, Steve (March 2005). "The Trustworthy Computing Security Development Lifecycle". Microsoft Corporation. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995349.aspx. Retrieved 31 August 2011. 
3. Maurya, Hari (14 January 2010). "Microsoft Security Development Life Cycle - short review". TechSurface. http://techsurface.com/2010/01/microsoft-security-development-lifecycle-sdl.html. Retrieved 31 August 2011.