The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle is a
software development process used and proposed by
Microsoft
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to reduce
software
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maintenance costs and increase reliability of software concerning
software security
Application security (short AppSec) includes all tasks that introduce a secure software development life cycle to development teams. Its final goal is to improve security practices and, through that, to find, fix and preferably prevent security i ...
related
bugs. It is based on the classical
spiral model
The spiral model is a risk-driven software development process model. Based on the unique risk patterns of a given project, the spiral model guides a team to adopt elements of one or more process models, such as incremental, waterfall, or evolu ...
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Trusted computing base
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