MAPP, which launched in 2008, is a unique collaborative effort that makes advanced information sharing possible on Microsoft product vulnerabilities with security software providers. This fall 2010, Adobe will work with Microsoft and share its vulnerability information along side of the other 65 global MAPP members. This protection scheme offers advanced protections to hundreds of millions of computer users. Using MAPP, Microsoft and its partners are helping to protect customers from the current and future threats.
As security threats become more global Microsoft and others have taken the view that the best way to defeat these threats or minimize them is to share information about what the threats cover, and how they will impact the software. No one company has all of the resources that can supply the necessary information to solve this problem. The only way is for companies to share information about what makes their products vulnerable, even if it means that other companies may see how the construction of the software. This is something that all software developers would normally be reluctant to give out. However, a unified effort may be the only way to systematically address this issue.
Microsoft has released some tools that can support these efforts to minimize threats. One is EMET, the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit. It is a freeware tool that embraces newer security mitigation but ports them to older platforms and applications.
Another tool, the Microsoft Vulnerability Research Paper, addresses vulnerabilities by third-party vendors and the efforts to contain them.
As security threats become more global Microsoft and others have taken the view that the best way to defeat these threats or minimize them is to share information about what the threats cover, and how they will impact the software. No one company has all of the resources that can supply the necessary information to solve this problem. The only way is for companies to share information about what makes their products vulnerable, even if it means that other companies may see how the construction of the software. This is something that all software developers would normally be reluctant to give out. However, a unified effort may be the only way to systematically address this issue.
Microsoft has released some tools that can support these efforts to minimize threats. One is EMET, the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit. It is a freeware tool that embraces newer security mitigation but ports them to older platforms and applications.
Another tool, the Microsoft Vulnerability Research Paper, addresses vulnerabilities by third-party vendors and the efforts to contain them.
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