Web Security [Paperback]

Amrit Tiwana Amrit Tiwana is a doctoral candidate in information systems at Georgia State University and also works as a consultant. His column Tiwana's Diary appears in Information Technology Magazine. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 5, 1999

Whether you are the only employee of a startup, a systems administrator managing a critical web server, a security consultant, or a systems manager overseeing an entire networked organization, this book provides you with an in-depth view of the risks in today's rapidly changing and increasingly insecure networked and digitally enabled environment. It will help you understand and analyze the risks involved and determine what level of security is needed; maintain a security system; formulate, implement, and streamline a usable policy; protect your Web setup from intrusion, sabotage, eavesdropping and tampering; scan the network for loopholes using the same array of tools hackers use; protect against active content, cookies, malicious code and hostile Java applets; secure electronic commerce and choose the right type of digital payment; select, secure, configure and set up firewalls; secure an extended and distributed enterprise network or Virtual Private Network.

The companion CD ROM contains an array of NT 5.0, Windows 98 & Windows 95 tools to scan networks, Web servers and sites for vulnerabilities, tools to break into networks and web servers, encryption tools, Firewall software, cookie killers, digital signers, log analysis and dictionary based password cracking tools to give a reality check to your best bets on security.

A companion website links you to the latest in the security scene both from the Underground and the industry and lets you access a variety of resources to keep up to date in this dynamic field. Rather than focus on Unix, this book covers Windows NT 5.0, IIS 4.0, Frontpage 98, Windows 98 and 95, as Windows is becoming the preferred platform for web development.




Covers Windows NT, Windows 95 and Windows 98
Companion website provides additional content and free updates
Discusses disaster recovery

Editorial Reviews

Review

The book has an excellent chapter on Digital Certificates and securing transactions which explains how to get and implement digital signatures. Overall, Web Security is an ideal introduction to web security for a Windows System Administrator looking to implement a web server or a non-technical manager who needs to understand the security issues involved in using the internet. - First Monday, August 2000

From the Publisher

The companion CD ROM contains an array of tools to scan networks, Web servers and sites for vulnerabilities, tools to break into networks and web servers, encryption tools, firewall software, cookie killers, digital signers, log analysis and dictionary based password cracking tools to give a reality check to your best bets on security. A companion website links you to the latest in the security scene both from the Underground and the industry and lets you access a variety of resources to keep up to date in this dynamic field.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Digital Press (August 5, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555582109
• ISBN-13: 978-1555582104
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,899,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Web Security by Amrit Tiwana, September 6, 2000

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Sam King (Toronto, CANADA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Web Security (Paperback)

The author seems to know his subject, however the material is poorly organized. It is perhaps useful as a supplement to to other texts on network and web security.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A lot of information, but not well packaged, October 2, 2001

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Erika Mitchell (E. Calais, VT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Web Security (Paperback)

This book contains a lot of information about Internet security for both clients and servers using Windows platforms. Some of the information is presented very clearly, such as the explanation of how digital certificates and digital signatures work. However, many of the chapters seem a bit disorganized and there is little coherence between one topic and the next. The text in many of the graphics is also a little blurry. The various versions of digital money are treated almost too thoroughly- -almost as if Tiwana wasn't sure which digital currency would prevail and so he had to describe them all in minute detail. In the 2 years since Tiwana wrote the book, none of the digital currencies that he described have really caught on, so perhaps the depth in this section was overkill. The CD that comes with the book contains some useful freeware and trial versions of software such as the SafenSigned Digital Signature Toolkit, the APK Cookie Killing Engine, and a Network Toolbox with utilities such as finger, ping, time sync, and traceroute.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Secure Web Sites, April 20, 2000

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Namit Kapoor (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Web Security (Paperback)

The book gives all details that are needed to bring up a secure web site from nothing. A good read for a beginner in the e-era.