To many IT professionals, webhosting security means protecting websites from hackers and malicious codes. But most of the time we forget to consider that websites security depends on a number of components such as server , application , database, scripts etc. One of the most important aspects of webhost security is to ensure continuous operation and disaster recovery of web services. This post aims to develop a broader picture that can help you to take necessary steps to ensure your sites continuous operation. [Read more…]
Apache Server Features with Vulnerabilities
Apache is one of the prevalent web servers because of its expandability with features, support community and cost. If you consider using Apache as a solution to your web server and want to implement the most basic security requirements, then you need to have clear understanding of some of the most ubiquitous features of Apache and those features are:
- Virtual hosts
- Server side includes or SSI
- Dynamic content with CGI
- Handlers
- Environmental variables
- URL mapping [Read more…]
IIS Security Settings
The version of IIS is all about its modules and functions. If you are just learning IIS then before reading this article, it is better to take a closer look at the IIS manger on your server and then go through the following instructions. To secure your IIS server you need to put some extra care to the following settings of IIS server
- IIS authentication
- IPv4 and domain rules
- ISAPI and CGI
- Filtering request
- Configuration to shared hosting sites
- Authorize the URLs in your server [Read more…]
