8.2. Adding additional security
In today’s world, with bots constantly trying different types of attacks to penetrate web servers, the best choice and the one easiest to manage is a third-party firewall solution, as discussed earlier. Small companies starting out with a new website may not have the initial budget to afford a software- or hardware-based firewall. For those cases, IIS contains additional components that, when combined with Windows Firewall, can provide a good level of security until a better solution can be employed.
This section examines two of the more common protection components in IIS: IP Address and Domain Restrictions, and Request Filtering. First up: blocking unwanted networks and domains.
8.2.1. Blocking by network: IP ...
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