The Web Security Handbook – the primary book on web security

The protection of your site against hackers is one of the most difficult tasks for a modern administrator. The Web Security Handbook is a must-have for the people that need their sites to be as safe as possible.

Once with the very quick development of Internet and information-sharing mechanisms that use it, the flow of information is becoming harder and harder to secure and to control. So, nowadays the skills of controlling and securing the access to information have a key-role in the overall development of the Internet. This book is oriented towards all kinds of people that work with Internet, starting with Web masters, Web managers and ending with Web designers. It will teach you to build secure sites by writing secure Java applets and CGI scripts, using network-protection software, such as firewalls and use cryptography for protecting the data on the site.

Every possible area of expertise is thoroughly explained in the book by an expert. Three security experts discuss the browser area of security: user passwords and IDs, anti-cookie policy and the advanced anonymity strategies. The server-side security is being sustained by firewalls, privacy-conscious Java applets, CGI scripts and by encrypting the payment protocol pages. Also, a great place in assuring the security comes from encryption. The basics of encryption can de found in an appendix to the book.

This book contains the most valuable information a system administrator must possess. It is filled with basic to advanced security techniques from client-side and server-side security practices, browser security, writing secure CGI scripts, and very interesting topics such as firewalls and securing the nowadays developing e-commerce. The most important thing that the book contains is the link to a website that contains the newest security practices and information on the latest security problems and their solutions.

The Web Security Handbook will help you not only to secure your website, but also it can help secure your own PC from the attacks that come from the Internet.