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Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches
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Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches

by Jason Helmick
December 2013
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
372 pages
11h 42m
English
Manning Publications
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8.1. Network protection for IIS

You’ll examine several best practices in this chapter that will help you secure your web servers, depending on how many you need to protect and your available budget. It helps to have an understanding of what is attacking you. This section starts out by describing the types of attacks commonly faced by your web server today and then dives into firewall and monitoring options to protect your web server from these attacks.

8.1.1. What are you worried about?

I find that the more I understand about security and the types of attacks that a web server may face, the better I can help avoid those risks. As the web administrator you can’t always control all aspects of securing your web servers with only IIS tools (although ...

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