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Welcome to Jesper Johansson's blog. This is my home for pontification on the web. In case this is your first time here, I have been working on information security for about 20 years, and have been writing and speaking on the topic for about 10.
My most recent book is the Windows Server 2008 Security Resource Kit . Because I am also a scuba instructor you may find some posts related to that topic as well. Just because it took me so long to get it, I also like to say that I have a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota.

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Is Firefox More Secure than Internet Explorer?: Well, sure it is. According to the Firefox web site, which must of course be untainted by marketing claims since it is Mozilla, " Firefox continues to lead the way in online security". OK, marketing hyperbole aside, I'm a data guy. I care...
Posted Fri, Nov 30 2007 by jesper | 6 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Security, Software Development, Security

All Software Has Vulnerabilities: No matter how smug you are about it, and how much you claim that security is someone else's problem, software will have vulnerabilities. It is a fact of life because software is, by far, the most complex engineering task mankind has ever undertaken...
Posted Tue, Nov 20 2007 by jesper | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Security Pontification, Software Development

So you want to play with writing code for Windows?: Maybe I've been living in a hole for the past six months, but I just found an announcement on the Microsoft Developer Network site: the Visual Studio Express Editions are free - forever! That's great news if you are looking for a low-cost development...
Posted Tue, Sep 19 2006 by jesper | 5 comment(s)
Filed under: Software Development

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