> Worms and Wildly Insecure Software: The Untold Story of Microsoft Cybersecurity in the Early 2000s

It was post-dot-com bubble and post-Worldcom implosion, and the so-called “telecom winter” was dragging on. In the early 2000s, the communications industry had, in a word, been economically decapitated, and companies were struggling to find a new path to innovation and technology enablement that left old-world ideas behind. Against this backdrop the first tendrils of the web 2.0 economy began to flourish – and with it, came cyber-risks that had never been seen before.