Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is a key component of the security infrastructure for Microsoft, the large, internationally known software manufacturer. The program manager of the center has been informed by a hacker of a potentially damaging security vulnerability in a piece of Microsoft's Internet server software. Neither the hacker nor MSRC knows for sure if systems using the software have been compromised, but they do know that the .....more

Shortly after the Microsoft Security Response Center found out about a security vulnerability in a part of their Internet server software, the Internet Information Server development team was brought in to find a solution. The team determined that a patch developed months before would fix the problem. They needed to notify the world's Internet users immediately to prevent them from being attacked by hackers. The team had to figure out how to keep .....more

The program manager and his team at the Microsoft Security Response Center decide to keep the security vulnerability and its solution quiet over the weekend. They contact the Microsoft Premier Support Organization, which provides high level service to large companies, to get the solution to as many of their customers as possible, since large companies would be hackers' first targets. The bulletin was ready for release and as far as the program .....more

Teaching note for product 9B01E019.