What Is Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (Microsoft SDL)?

If you've ever been on a project, you know much work is involved. You have to ensure everyone's on the same page, which means they're all trained, and then you have to get requirements set before you can design anything. Then there's implementation, verification and release. All this takes time and money! Is there a way to make all those steps shorter? What if there was a way to speed up development? Well, now there is Microsoft SDL. The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (Short for Microsoft SDL) is a software program improvement method based on the corkscrew model. Resolving protection susceptibilities or even lowering improvement and renovation costs. The method is split into seven phases: training, requirements, design, undertaking, verification, launch and response. SDL is a cyclic process recommended to continuously maintain and control the risk level. A company can return to the training phase to refresh employees when designing and building new systems. The implementation of SDL helps to protect the integrity of data, privacy, and availability of information. It serves as a foundation for other security processes. The third phase of SDL is all about design. It is where we consider security and privacy concerns because it's essential to decrease the risk of repercussions from the public. During this phase, we'll use attack surface analysis or reduction and threat modeling to apply an organized approach to dealing with threat scenarios. Implementation of the design must also employ approved tools and include an analysis of dynamic run-time performance to check an application's functional limitations. We've talked about SDL's release, response, and post-mortem phase. But what about the post-mortem phase? The post-mortem phase is crucial to SDL because it ensures you do everything possible to anticipate potential security issues. It also helps you identify potential problems to address them before they become actual problems.