From Code Red to Rust: Microsoft's Security Journey

Microsoft reviews 25 years of security lessons, noting how early outbreaks like SQL Slammer prompted a stronger security mindset and investment in mitigations such as fuzzing, safer library usage, and compiler protections. The company acknowledges persistent technical debt from large C/C++ codebases—responsible for a majority of their memory-safety fixes—and promotes initiatives (including adopting Rust) to reduce memory corruption vulnerabilities going forward.