Chapter 11. Securing Server Roles

Jesper M. Johansson

It should be relatively obvious that every server fulfills some kind of role. Some are Web servers. Some are file servers. Others are domain controllers (DCs) or infrastructure servers, such as Domain Name System (DNS) and the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). Then, of course, there is the DC/File Server/Web Server/Application Server/Firewall/DHCP/DNS server, also known as "the server" in a small business. (For more on that, see Chapter 15.) But, none of them are anything until you deploy one or more ...

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