Protecting Your Web Sites with Firewalls

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 Web Site 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 a full evaluation copy of WebTrend, the premier Web-logging and reporting software for Windows NT Webservers, to help you control the traffic, who's coming in and their activities at your site. Protecting Your Web Site 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, and software patches to enhances security.