Hello all. Before we look at next week’s bulletin release, we’d like to point out an update to our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) that should provide customers with greater transparency as to how MAPP partners use the information we share with them when we release security advisories.
As you know, we work closely with our MAPP partners to share information on issues as they arise, thus extending protections to the greatest possible number of computers on the Internet. As of our most recent Security Advisory, we’ve started a new process of listing the partners who have confirmed that they released protection within 96 hours after the advisory release on a special Web page. Naturally not every Advisory applies to every partner, so we do not expect them all to report protections in place for every individual Advisory.
