Protecting Your Website with Firewalls (Textbook Binding)

This book is a practical guide for Webmasters, Web site administrators and System Administrators involved with web security. It's a practical guide to protecting web sites utilizing firewalls. The book is slanted towards Windows 95 and NT but does cover UNIX and Novell.

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The complete Webmaster's guide to Website security.

Whether you have a Website, an intranet, or both, Protecting Your Website with Firewalls is your end-to-end resource for maximizing security. This highly readable, hands-on book covers all the security choices associated with virtually every Internet resource, including:

• WWW/HTTP.
• Conferencing.
• E-mail.
• FTP.
• News gateways/NNTP.
• Telnet.

Learn how firewalls, packet filtering, and proxy servers work—and how you can use them to protect your site with minimum cost, disruption, and complexity. Explore the leading HTTP security protocols, Secure-HTTP, and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), as well as today's advanced authentication and encryption solutions.

Then, walk step-by-step through planning, implementing, and maintaining your firewall and related security technologies. Protecting Your Website with Firewalls includes detailed checklists, step-by-step instructions, and case studies to help you identify common security gaps at your site—and systematically close them.

Learn how to decide which resources are worth protecting—and which may not be worth the trouble. Finally, if you do have a break-in, the book shows you what to do next—both to improve security and to pursue the intruder.

The accompanying CD-ROM includes the comprehensive TIS security toolkit for Windows NT servers.

Protecting Your Website with Firewalls also contains comprehensive, up-to-date resource listings for:

• Tools that can identify weaknesses and improve authentication and passwords.
• Firewall products, resellers, and consultants.
• Software patches to enhance security.

Your Internet connection places your most critical business secrets at risk. With this conversational, thorough guide, you can dramatically reduce those risks now —and for years to come.

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