Internet Information Server (IIS) Security

In this section we are going to cover some of the key aspects that need to be addressed in order to have a secure web server using IIS. It is important to note that a system is only as secure as its weakest link and therefore any web server must be built on a secure and hardened Windows 2000 system. Securing Windows 2000 is not covered in this section but has been covered in a previous module. So before you install IIS make sure that you spend the time to properly harden your base operating system. Once you have a secure operating system configured, you...