Managing the patch process
Friday, 23 April 2004 16:57 EST
A software developer who began his career who began his career with Microsoft at its Melbourne operation is now at is now at the nerve centre of one of the company's most important divisions - its security response centre (MSRC). Iain Mulholland was in Melbourne for two years from the year 2000 and then moved to Redmond where he is now the operations manager of the MSRC. Mulholland, 32, is the equivalent of a program manager but his division is one that is very much in the spotlight, given the new, apparent, emphasis which Microsoft has laid on security.
The MSRC is a core team consisting of a number of program managers, each of whom focuses on a specific technical area - be it Internet Explorer, Windows, Office and so on.
Understandably, while there's a good deal of process involved in producing the many patches that Microsoft puts out on the second Tuesday of each month, Mulholland can only speak about some part. But he was quite forthcoming during a phone chat.
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