Microsoft Minimizes Threat of Buffer Overruns, Builds Trustworthy Applications

Overview

Microsoft Corporation is a leader in technology that transforms the way one works, plays, and communicates. With the threat of hackers and virus attacks on the rise, Microsoft wanted to automate detection of security vulnerabilities in deployed applications. To do this, Microsoft added security checks, such as the GS Switch, into the Microsoft Visual C++ development system compiler and used the technology to build Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2.