Re: Web Server behind ZoneAlarm?
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Re: Web Server behind ZoneAlarm?

From: Brian Cryer <brianc@127.0.0.1.activesol.co.uk>
Date: Fri Nov 04 2005 - 13:06:12 CET

"Leythos" <void@nowhere.lan> wrote in message
news:81Iaf.83494$Hs.48864@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...
> In article <YcudnRmi-OpW1PbeRVnysw@pipex.net>, brianc@
> 127.0.0.1.activesol.co.uk says...
>> Something I forgot about was the
>> number of security holes in IIS (Apache is better, but I'm sure it has
>> its
>> own set of security holes). I've not played with password protecting
>> IIS -
>> it must help.
>
> Check the stats, there are more compromised Apache servers online around
> the world than IIS servers :)
>
> IIS, if properly managed, like Apache, is secure. We've done public IIS
> sites for fortune 100 companies and they've never been compromised. It's
> about the layers of security you setup.

Interesting, I'd always assumed Apache was safer. I stand corrected.

-- 
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
Received on Mon Nov 21 02:39:18 2005