Microsoft pledges to help vendors find, fix bugs
PC World | at | by Mike
Microsoft's security team will help third-party developers of Windows applications and add-ons find and fix bugs in their software, the company said Thursday.
The program, dubbed Microsoft Vulnerability Research, is a formalization of things the company currently does, not a brand-new initiative, said Andrew Cushman, the company's director of security response and outreach, from the Black Hat security conference.
"This is work we're already doing," he said. "We'll report vulnerabilities we find in third-party software and we'll work with them to identify, resolve and mitigate those vulnerabilities.