Proof of Concept: Introduce Extended Security Check Modules that are NOT run on the Admin Dashboard but on a new Admin -> Tools -> Security Checks page. The first set of extended modules check against conditions where .htaccess files exist, to remove .htaccess files from the core as they may or may not work on the webserver without the store owner knowning.
Introduce new Database Tables page for the Administration Tool to check, analyze, optimize, repair, and convert to utf8 tables.
new http authentication extended security check module
new mysql_utf8 extended security check module to warn if any databases are not utf8_unicode_ci
new version check extended security check module that warns if a new version check was not performed in 30 days