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| Book: | Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers for the Internet | |
| Subject: | Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers for the Internet Review | |
| Date: | 2001-08-15 09:29:11 | |
| From: | Joshua Daniel Franklin | |
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Rating:
 
This is an excellent book for anyone running an Internet-accessible Windows server. It focuses on perimeter "bastion hosts," but most of the tips are applicable if you just have a single machine running IIS as we do. Unfortunately the only advice on IIS itself the author gives is to install the latest security patches. (Well, that's not quite true. He also advises not running it unless absolutely necessary.) I also dilike his advice on installing Cygwin dlls and binaries in the Windows SYSTEM directory--a non-standard practice which will get you flamed on the Cygwin mailing list if you have any problems. I'd recommend installing Cygwin in c:\cygwin instead. It's easier to find and what Cygwin developers expect. |
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