Chapter 21. Securing Your Web Site
Any web site can be thought of as a castle under constant attack by a sea of barbarians. And as the history of both conventional and information warfare shows, the attackers' victory isn't entirely dependent upon their degree of skill or cunning, but rather on an oversight in the castle defense. As keeper of the electronic kingdom, you're faced with no small number of potential ingresses from which havoc can be wrought, including notably:
Software vulnerabilities: Web applications are constructed from numerous technologies, typically a database server, a web server, and one or more programming languages—all running on one or more operating systems. Therefore, it's crucial to constantly keep abreast of and resolve ...
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