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Publicly Accessible Servers

Implementation

11.1 Chapter objectives

■ Types of server environments

■ Remote versus self-hosted

■ Types of web server–specific attacks

■ E-mail servers

11.2 Securing your organization’s Internet site

Connecting to the web can be hazardous. Even when all precautions

are taken—firewalls installed and regularly updated, policies cre-

ated, and application protocols filtered—it only takes one user click-

ing on something hazardous to open the door to mayhem. For now,

though, attention must be turned to the outside, to that which lurks

just outside, on the “doorstep” to the Internet. Many organizations

have both the technical ...