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Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Server Security

By Elisha Marty


In recent days with increasing popularity of BSD and Linux, it made sense that Microsoft creates a personal web server available for home use. The server security problems are those problem which can pop up instead of having various new technologies.

Server security has big companies and teams working regularly keeping abreast with the latest technical progress. If a server is affected, then the entire network that is connected to the server gets affected. Strong security measures are put in action to protect the servers.

There are many types of attacks that hamper security. DDos is abbreviated for Distributed Denial of service attack which is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Though targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of those persons who helped to prevent a service from functioning efficiently or temporarily. A password crack is a form of attack that can be done using dictionary attack by guessing password over and over. A mis-configuration attack is a variety of things that can be done due to mis configuration. To avoid this kind of attack existing settings need to be changed or new settings need to be created every time.

Web servers are one of the most targeted public faces of an organization, because of the sensitivity of data that they usually host. Web server security has the same importance as the web site security or web application security itself and the network around it. As insecure web server or web application puts anyone's business at a huge risk.

The major problem about server security is not only to ensure optimum security through server security management systems, but it's all about external threats, in front of which, our server is always vulnerable in such a way, that a well configured systems can't get rid of this. UNIX operating systems are in the top of all others in comparison. Security issues are not well defined yet as new risks are generated almost every single moment. It seems to be unpredictable that which means of security measures you can take, as at very next moment that could become obsolete in front of new threat.




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