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ideas for a security project

Hi there,
I need to know what are the ideas for developing a project at master's level in security. A good solid project which will be me valuable learning experience. May be in Java or .net. Any ideas would be appreciable.

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anup001

SunBow

A good one would be to identify exactly what is required to keep a windows machine running without any need for a reboot. And ... I mean running, including no reboot for upgrade or downtime due to exploits.

This is serious. For one, it saves time, it leads to reliability, and to dependability. Those are all important. For another, supposedly this is normally considered impossible, but it has been done for webservers (not by MS though), at least for some web sites that were involved in security.

What is suggested as needed to do this, is to include many security protection options actually used (check for them, or find a way to install them with programming), and a reduction in the use of features from many microsoft products. As such, the code would have to know more about the products, and their functions, and whether the function should be permitted for certain product types.

Probably, ActiveX is not implemented on full throttle, but maybe IIS itself is OK. if you want a good project, and a hard one, you can't do any better than securing a windows machine. If you can, that is.

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