SANS InfoSec Reading Room - Web Servers
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Featuring 20 papers as of Aug 29, 2008
- A Reverse Proxy Is A Proxy By Any Other Name
- Art Stricek
- January 18, 2007
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- Secure Session Management: Preventing Security Voids in Web Applications
- Luke Murphey
- May 5, 2005
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- Securing an IIS Web Server Using Novell’s iChain
- Jeff Hermans
- May 5, 2005
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- A Guide to Discovering Web Application Insecurities, Before Attackers Do
- Don Williams
- March 9, 2005
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- Authentication and Session Management on the Web
- Paul Johnston
- January 28, 2005
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- Domino Web Server
- Karen Zwolski
- May 2, 2004
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- Web Authentication Security
- Donna Selman
- November 6, 2003
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- Security Elements of IIS 6.0
- Anthony DeVoto
- November 5, 2003
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- Security Strengths and Weaknesses of Two Popular Web Servers
- Brad Bell
- October 31, 2003
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- Securing Microsoft's Internet Information Server 5.0
- Ben White
- October 31, 2003
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- Proactively Guarding Against Unknown Web Server Attacks
- William Geiger
- October 31, 2003
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- Understanding IIS Vulnerabilities - Fix Them!
- Nor Azuwa Pahri
- October 31, 2003
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- Securing a Windows 2000 IIS Web Server - Lessons Learned
- Harpal Parmar
- October 31, 2003
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- Using Open Source Software to Proxy, Authenticate, and Monitor User Web Habits
- Jason D. Gregg
- October 31, 2003
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- Securing Microsoft Web Applications - A Guide for Systems Administrators
- Matt Pogue
- October 31, 2003
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- Web Application Security, with a Focus on ColdFusion
- Joseph Higgins
- October 31, 2003
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- Securing e-Commerce Web Sites
- Ariel Pisetsky
- October 31, 2003
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- Basic IIS 5.0 Default Web Server Security
- Terri Carroll
- October 31, 2003
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- Securing IIS within an Outook Web Access 2000 environment
- Dave Munger
- October 31, 2003
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- Using Microsoft's IISlockdown Tool to Protect Your IIS Web Server
- Jeff Wichman
- October 31, 2003
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