There are a few aspects to that. That specific incident was something we call an out-of-band patch alert. Microsoft was issuing something outside of the normal process. Normally, that's called Patch Tuesday, and so that immediately draws attention. From a cybersecurity agency perspective, our goal is to make sure Canadians are aware and responding quickly, because that is something that is usually quite urgent.
The second aspect of that is in terms of previous knowledge. These companies have advanced notification programs, but in this case the scope [Technical difficulty—Editor] done quickly and released by Microsoft to respond to a very urgent threat that was faced.
Our goal here is to always get alerts out as quickly as possible so people can take action. Unfortunately, in these scenarios, the best response is to patch as quickly as possible to prevent any further exploitation.