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May 2004 - Deb Shinder's MVP Blog

  • Securing the Vote

    The push has been on in the U.S. since the 2000 elections to replace old paper and punchcard ballots with electronic voting systems, but as the 2004 elections draw closer, serious questions are being raised about the security of the new systems, many...
  • Somebody Missing in the Builders and Titans Report?

    Today on CNN.com, I clicked the link to read Time Magazine's “Builders and Titans” report, which purports to be a list of those business people who have created successful businesses and/or championed established ones and have had a significant influence...
  • Biometrics Conference

    Biometric security has been a source of contention on many levels. On the surface, it sounds like the perfect solution to the problem of identity theft. After all, there are a number of physiological traits that are more or less unique to individual human...
  • 802.11i: Its time is coming

    It looks as if this summer the IEEE will finally approve the standards for 802.11i. That's the wireless security standard that is based on RSN, which uses AES (the protocol formerly known as Rinjdael) and a 128 bit encryption key to provide better security...
  • ALF article

    The article on Application Layer Filtering (ALF) that I wrote for Windowsecurity.com has just been reprinted by SecurityProNews over at http://securitypronews.com/2004/0505.html . There is a lot of interest in ALF these days, and no wonder -- the ability...
  • Securing Server 2003 Domain Controllers

    I have a new article up on the Windowsecurity.com Web site that contains some tips on how to make your Windows Server 2003 domain controllers more secure. As home networks become more and more sophisticated, I run into a lot of people who are “doing Windows...
  • Service Pack 2 Blues

    In the April 27 issue of WinXPNews, I wrote a short piece on some of the experiences that our readers have reported with the installation of the technical preview release of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. As noted in the article, those ranged from “smooth...


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