1ES - Engineering@Microsoft

CloudTest: A multi-tenant, scalable, performant and extensible verification service

Sina Jafari October 25, 2021 Oct 25, 2021 10/25/21

In this post, Sina Jafari discusses key characteristics of the CloudTest infrastructure used at Microsoft and why similar characteristics should be considered in all large-scale test infrastructures to improve engineers’ productivity and help them ship high-quality software.

Generating Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) with SPDX at Microsoft

Adrian Diglio October 13, 2021 Oct 13, 2021 10/13/21

In this post, Adrian Diglio walks us through how Microsoft is planning to generate SBOMs not just to meet the U.S. Presidential Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity, but for all software that Microsoft produces.

Caesar, standards, and SAST: The road to SARIF

Michael C. Fanning September 27, 2021 Sep 27, 2021 09/27/21

In this post, Michael Fanning gives us a short history on standards (think Julius Caesar), how consensus on something very small can enable something very large, and how all of it relates to the design of the ‘Static Analysis Results Interchange Format’ (SARIF).

You can’t have security for DevOps until you have DevOps for security

Bryan Sullivan September 16, 2021 Sep 16, 2021 09/16/21

The faster we iterate on refining secure development practices, the faster our developers can address security pain points, and the better we protect our customers. In this post, Bryan Sullivan walks through key learnings from the 1ES Security team.

Separating the signal from the noise

Bryan Sullivan July 6, 2021 Jul 6, 2021 07/6/21

If a security tool catches a critical vulnerability, but also reports 99 other findings that turn out to be false positives, developers are going to ignore everything that the tool reports and then miss the important issues. Bryan Sullivan talks through how you can hone your tooling to separate the signal from the noise.

Welcome to the Engineering@Microsoft Blog

Magnus Hedlund July 6, 2021 Jul 6, 2021 07/6/21

Microsoft has over 100,000 software engineers working on software projects of all sizes. Keeping those engineering teams productive while meeting their ever-increasing scale demands is a big challenge. Read about the One Engineering System (1ES) initiative in this inaugural post on the Engineering@Microsoft blog.

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