Chapter 8. Common Application Design Considerations

This chapter covers the following topics:

• E-Mail

• DNS

• HTTP/HTTPS

• FTP

• Instant Messaging

• Application Evaluation

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Although this book will certainly not go into great detail on application security, in certain cases application security relies on the network for its overall security strategy. This chapter presents best practices for the deployment of e-mail, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and FTP. A short discussion on instant ...

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