Security development lifecycle

The increasing adoption of “client and cloud” computing raises several important concerns about security. This article discusses security issues that are associated with “client and cloud” and their impact on organizations that host applications “in the cloud.” It describes how Microsoft minimizes the security vulnerabilities in these, possibly mission-critical, platforms and applications by following two, complementary approaches: developing the policies, practices, and technologies to make their “client and cloud” applications as secure as possible, and managing the security of the platform environment through clearly defined operational security policies.