What are some good links to make your web more secure?
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What are some good links to make your web more secure?
Do you mean your web site?
Can you be a bit more specific? Like what type of webserver (apache or IIS), scripting languages, database access?
Unfortunately there isn't a single source for all this information so you need to be a bit more specific so we can point you in the right direction.
http://www.owasp.org/guide/ learn it, love it, live it
Note that this is an overview, and is almost entirely focused on the web application side (as opposed to the infrastructure - the network, OS, web server software). OTOH, it's reasonably compact and complete.
what exactly is Apache & ISS? I opened a link once which was an IP address, and it took me to an "Apache Server" and it said that the server successfully installed a couple of plugins...i'm just not sure what they are.
Apache is a powerful, flexible, HTTP/1.1 compliant web server
it uses the latest protocols, including HTTP/1.1 (RFC2616)
it also provides full source code and comes with an unrestrictive license
runs on Windows NT/9x, Netware 5.x and above, OS/2, and most versions of Unix, as well as several other operating systems
I believe ISS stands for Internet security system
>>>I believe ISS stands for Internet security system
IIS stands for Internet Information Services, it too is a web server. It came after PWS died off
Windows 9x came with PWS -> Personal Web Server.
I however would recomend Apache over IIS, for security reasons. Apache is spuorted by Win9x and higher.
You're right about the abreviation. IIS is the official Microsoft webserver. It comes bundled on all NT based server versions of Windows. PWS is just a stripped down (less options) version of IIS basicly meant for test and development. MS stopped supporting it a while ago.Quote:
Originally posted here by journy101
IIS stands for Internet Information Services, it too is a web server. It came after PWS died off
Windows 9x came with PWS -> Personal Web Server.
The current version of IIS is 6.0 and is build into Windows 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/iis/