E-Consulting on Web Server Security Infrastructure
Vijay Masurkar · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2001
Web is ubiquitous, reaches more people and reaches them faster than most other services.As the use of Internet and the e-Commerce grew and the web became the most popular user interface for Internet applications, its security issues have become very visible.From the web infrastructure e-Consulting perspective, this paper generically examines the server-side security beginning with why and how it became an attractive target for attackers.From managing or recommending on electronic transactions to web authoring and firewalling, the pros and cons of the web server features are discussed with useful tips to web site and web server managers.Also, decisional tradeoffs faced by typical e-Commerce vendors in securing their web servers are presented.