Deb Shinder

Email me at:
deb@debshinder.com

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein NETWORK SECURITY: It's what I do Social Engineering Q&A Why Cybercriminals love Wireless Networking by Deb Shinder, published by Cramsession.com New Technologies: An Invitation to Cybercrime? by Deb Shinder, published by isaserver.org Many more articles Whitepapers and other writing PRESENTATIONS and APPEARANCES People on the Scene of the Cybercrime Jurisdictional Issues in Prosecuting Cybercrimes (presented at DallasCon 2002) Assisting Law Enforcement in Tracking Down and Prosecuting Cybercriminals (presented at BlackHat USA 2002) More Presentations and Appearances Kristen has returned to the states after serving for a year on the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Asadabad, Afghanistan. The "GrandCats" Bobble and the Big Kitty PORTRAITS OF BOBBLE The Latest Addition to Our Family: Suki   Favorite TV Shows (many of which are gone but not forgotten) Star Trek (all) Stargate SG-1 Stargate Atlantis Battlestar Galactica Andromeda Firefly Jeremiah JAG House 24 Lost Jericho Las Vegas Without a Trace NCIS CSI Law & Order   ABOUT THIS SITE - AND ME I recently received an unsolicited email message from someone I don't know, informing me that my web site is "hopelessly old fashioned." I guess it is. No Flash, no PHP, no sophisticated Java or scripting. Just pictures and words that attempt to convey a little about my activities, personality and beliefs to whomever might be interested. That's okay. I guess in many ways, I'm an old fashioned kind of girl. If you're looking for "bling," you're probably in the wrong place. If you want to get to know me, though, welcome to my virtual world.

Debra Littlejohn Shinder is a former police officer/criminal justice instructor who now makes her living as an IT author, trainer and speaker. She has written or contributed to 26 books, published over 600 articles and has been living online, along with her husband Tom (whom she met via the Internet), since the mid-1990s.

• Deb is co-owner, with her husband Tom Shinder, and CEO of TACteam (Trainers, Authors & Consultants team).
• Deb is editor of Win7News
• Deb is editor of (discontinued) VistaNews.
• Deb is editor of WXPNews.
• Deb is lead author and blogger for ISAServer.org and Windowsecurity.com and contributor and newsletter editor for WindowsNetworking.com
• Deb writes articles and columns on business and consumer technologies and network security for TechRepublic.
• Deb has written books for Syngress Publishing and contributed to books for Osborne/McGraw Hill. She has also written or contributed to books published by Cisco Press and Que Publishing.
• Deb writes freelance articles for CNET, ZDnet and Windows IT Pro Magazine. She has also published articles in Law & Order magazine.
• Deb was previously the editor of the Element K Windows Server Security Journal.
• Deb is a contractor for Microsoft, Sunbelt Software, GFI Software, and Prowess Consulting. She has also done contract work for Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Configuresoft, Intel and other software and hardware companies.
• Deb is a member and past chairperson of the Eastfield College Law Enforcement Training Advisory Board.
• Deb is chairperson of the City of Rowlett bond committee facilities subcommittee.
• Deb is currently serving as president of the Board of Directors of her neighborhood homeowners' association, Harborside HOA.
• Deb is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations

In her spare time (yeah, right), Deb likes to play piano, swim in the pool or relax in the spa, take digital photographs or just sit and stare out her office window at the lake. She reads fifty or more novels each year and also enjoys watching an extensive collection of DVD movies and recording her favorite TV programs with her media center PC.

Deb dabbled in politics in the 1980s, serving as a city councilmember and public safety commissioner for the City of Seagoville, and as an executive officer of the Seagoville Chamber of Commerce. She has recently begun to get interested in municipal politics again in her new Dallas 'burb and has started a new blog dedicated mostly to local political and economic development issues.

Deb and Tom now live just east of Dallas, TX on the shores of beautiful Lake Ray Hubbard, and she has two grown kids: Kristen (who's in the Navy and currently stationed in San Diego following a deployment in Afghanistan) and Kristoffer (a graduate of the University of Dallas who teaches chess and participates in the family business as a technical writer).

The family also includes two "grandcats," along with lots of feathered friends who drop by for dinner frequently. Each summer, a family of barn swallows make a nest in the eaves of their balcony, and Deb and Tom have the privilege of watching a brood of baby swallows grow up and fledge - often getting to help out by putting the babies back in the nest when they fall out.

I am the luckiest person I know. I haven't ever won the lottery (yet), but in addition to being born to the best parents in the world, marrying the greatest guy in the world (okay, that one took three tries but it was worth it), and giving birth to the two most fantastic kids in the world, I have the best job(s) in the world and live in the most beautiful place in the world (in my opinion, and that's the one that counts). Life is good.

Deb & Tom, circa 1999

The Kids

Kristen                    Kristoffer

You can see more pictures of the Shinder family on Deb and Tom's personal homepage at www.shinder.net.
   

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This page was last updated on
Friday March 05, 2010

 

I support  the reelection of John Harper as Mayor of Rowlett

Deb receives Microsoft MVP again for 2009

On April 1, 2009, Deb Shinder received the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award from Microsoft in the field of Enterprise Security for the fifth year in a row. She and her husband, Tom Shinder, are one of a handful of MVP couples.

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Warning: This Web site is not and neither claims nor aspires to be politically correct.

Warning: This page and its subpages may at times contain opinions, information and observations that are likely to offend or even outrage some folks, and (I hope) amuse or even inspire others. Oh well.

Warning: Intelligent discourse is always welcome; flames and hate mail aren't. If you'd like to try to change my mind, feel free -- but be forewarned that I just might try to change yours in return.

Warning: Above all, don't forget Rule #1: Never enter a battle of wits unarmed.

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SOME OF MY
BOOKS

Scene of the Cybercrime

Computer Networking Essentials

With Tom:

Configuring ISA Server 2004
(Despite the name, Deb did write half the book)

With Jim Boyce:

Windows XP Answers from the Experts

Favorite
Fiction Authors

Nelson DeMille

Jonathon, Faye & Jesse Kellerman

Orson Scott Card

John Nance

Stephen King

Neal Stephenson

David Hagberg

John Sandford

Jeffery Deaver

Ridley Pearson

Dean Koontz

Tess Gerritson

Recommended
Non-fiction

Lone Star
T.R. Fehrenbach

My Grandfather's Son
Clarence Thomas

Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared Diamond

CONFESSIONS
OF A
CAPITALIST
PIGLET
(Enter at your own risk)

In memory
Sept. 11, 2001