Doing so allows them to look for coding errors and security vulnerabilities. Like any fuzzing service, Project Springfield enables a customer to input massive amounts of data, called “fuzz,” into a system in an attempt to make it crash. The more we can find those bugs ourselves, the more we can fix them before we ship the software.” “Those are the bugs that hackers will try to use. Patrice Godefroid, a principal researcher at Microsoft, feels it’s important that customers attempt to close those vulnerabilities before a software’s release.Īs quoted in a blog post published by the tech giant: Instead they can focus on fortifying their software before hackers even get their hands on it. As a result, they don’t need to undertake the costly effort of releasing a patch reactively. Microsoft has announced the release of Project Springfield, a fuzzing tool which helps customers find security bugs in software before the hackers do.Īccording to the Redmond-based company, the service is designed to help developers find security vulnerabilities proactively.
