Carrell Jackson, the Web developer for Alexander Rocco Corporation, has informed
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Question
Carrell Jackson, the Web developer for Alexander Rocco Corporation, has informed you that Microsoft IIS 6.0 is used for the company’s Web site. He’s proud of the direction the Web site is taking and says it has more than 1000 hits per week. Customers can reserve hotel rooms, schedule tee times for golf courses, and make reservations at any of the facility’s many restaurants. Customers can enter their credit card information and receive confirmations via e-mail. Based on this information, write a memo to Mr. Jackson listing any technical cybersecurity alerts or known vulnerabilities of IIS 6.0. If you find vulnerabil- ities, your memo should include recommendations and be written in a way that doesn’t generate fear or uncertainty but encourages prudent decision-making.
Explanation / Answer
MEMO:
SUB: TECHNICAL CYBERSECURITY VULNERABILITY OF IIS 6.0
Mr.
It has been observed that the website is been running smoothly and there is an particularly good increase in the number of visitors each day. As, the visitors increase the website is now reachable to wide group of people which makes it important for us to keep the website safe from external threats.
As, it is my duty to inform you each and everything that may bother our company.Hence, I have researched and found many new vulnerabilities fencing in the world to the technologies we use in our websites. But these are just vulnerabilities and we are not having any trouble in our websites. But it is better to prevent than to later take precautions and hence, I am informing you to take some positive decisions for enhancing the security of the website and making it safe and sound for the people visiting our websites.
Kindly treat this as urgent.
Rgds
Hence, this is how an memo is written for informing about the vulnerabilities to the officials for getting an important decision from their side.