Web Security: A Step-by-Step Reference Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Lincoln D. Stein
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 151890
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.4 x 1
ISBN: 0201634899
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
UPC: 785342634891
EAN: 9780201634891
ASIN: 0201634899
Publication Date: December 31, 1997
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Product Description
Written for Web site administrators, developers, and end users, this book is a readable, real-world guide to securing your Web site with the latest in security technology, techniques, and tools. Lincoln D. Stein, keeper of the official Web Security FAQ, addresses your most pressing concerns and tells you exactly what you need to know to make your site more secure. He offers concise explanations of essential theory; helps you analyze and evaluate the risks that threaten your site and the privacy of your clients; and provides concrete, step-by-step solutions, checklists of do's and don'ts, on-line and off-line resources, and hardware and software tools that guard your site against security breaches. Web Security approaches the topic from three different points of view-protecting the end user's confidentiality and the integrity of his or her machine, protecting the Web site from intrusion and sabotage, and protecting both from third-party eavesdropping and tampering. You will learn about securing credit card transactions with the SET protocol document encryption with the SSL protocol how to guard end users against the dangers of active content and cookies monitoring and log tools controlling access with passwords, client certificates, and advanced login protocols remote authoring firewalls In addition, the book offers practical advice on configuring the operating system securely and eliminating unnecessary features that increase vulnerability. CGI scripts introduce many of the security problems that plague the Web, and this book shows how to avoid these breaches with safe CGI-scripting techniques. You will also learn how to avoid denial-of-service attacks and prevent LAN break-ins through the Web server. After reading this book, you will have the practical knowledge you need to ensure that your Web site, and your clients' interests, are safe from attack.
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Excellent, but dated September 12, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book on web security.It is dated, but has a ton of good info nonetheless.
An Excellent Primer August 16, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've read this book twice now. Once when I first bought it and again a couple weeks ago. My reaction after the second reading was an intense desire to unplug every electronic device in my house - even the microwave - and smash them with a very large hammer. Why, you ask? Because there is no way, I repeat, NO WAY to truly, totally and completely protect yourself from invasions to your privacy in the modern world. It almost makes me sympathize with those radical survivalist-types. Mr. Stein clearly and concisely lays out the hazards of surfing the web, sending and receiving e-mail, and doing a number of other things on the Internet. He gives a lot of the history and background of various technologies (JavaScript, Cookies, etc.), explaining how things got the way they are now, and where they are going in the future. He further gives practical suggestions that anyone can implement to practice "safe surf". Web Security contains content for systems administrators, web designers and lay-people alike. Better yet, these sections are cleanly separated making it easy for technical and non-technical folks to easily get to information that most interests them. Best of all, the entire book is written in English - not techno-babble - so you don't have to have a degree from MIT to understand it. If you have been looking for a good introduction to security issues on the Internet, this book is a must-have!
Every Internet Developer needs it January 2, 2000
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Before reading the book always thought that what are the ways to secure the confidential info on your web site? This book will gives you a answers to all the question. After reading the book now understands how and why? Every Project Lead plus Project Manager involved in anykind of Web development needs to have this book in their shelves.
This is a good site for student! April 16, 1999
7 out of 60 found this review helpful
I am zhao ke, and I am studing at the Electric Engineering department of hunan Universtiy of China.I like this site, and I often come to this site to find any good book about computer network.Every time, I find a good book I want to get.I am very happy at this site. I hope every student come to this site to find book they want!
excellent for starters April 27, 1998
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
Explains the basics of Web Security very well. Discusses public keys, SSL, certificates and related issues in plain English; provides meaningful figures/diagrams. Nice book to own and have handy on your bookshelf.
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