Security Engineering Portal
Discover the security engineering practices used at Microsoft to build and operate highly secure apps and services.
Overview
In today’s complex and regulated environment, organizations need to focus on building more secure solutions that deliver value to their customers, partners, and shareholders. Through the Security Engineering Portal, we’re sharing what we’ve learned through our decades of experience implementing and continuously improving security-aware software development, operational management, and threat-mitigation practices that are essential to the strong protection of services and data.
Explore the following development guidance, models, and tools to get started.
Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)
Learn about the Microsoft SDL and how you can use to develop more secure software.
Operational Security
Establish a scalable process for improving operational security in cloud-based infrastructure.
OSS Secure Supply Chain
Learn about how to securely consume open source through the OSS Secure Supply Chain Framework and protect your developers from OSS supply chain threats.
Cybersecurity Teams
Learn how Microsoft has invested in multiple cybersecurity teams and related facilities to address threats to our customers and our technology ecosystem.
Microsoft also has specialized groups and teams to provide intensive focus on specific security issues, including:
- The Windows Defender Security Intelligence Center, which is the antimalware research-and-response organization within Microsoft that protects computer systems from malicious software attacks. The center continuously monitors millions of computers worldwide, gathering and analyzing threat data. With help from researchers around the world, it can identify and mitigate new threats within hours of their discovery.