Securing Web Applications, Services, and Servers
Gerald Beuchelt, The MITRE Corporation1, Bedford, MA, U.S.A.
1 Setting the Stage
The development of a distributed hypertext system in the early 1990s at the CERN in Switzerland was one of the defining moments in making the Internet available to an audience beyond academia and specialized communities. The combination of a simple, yet powerful, transport protocol—HTTP—with a specialization of the Standard Generic Markup Language (SGML) made it possible to render complex content on the fly and link related information, even if it was distributed.
As with many other information systems technologies, the early implementation of the Web included only very limited built-in security, especially ...
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