Configuring Security

Published on November 14, 2007 by pharr

Updated on November 14, 2007 by pharr

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Your Web Platform Security

Introduction This article contains the following: Reduced Surface Area Simplified Security Management New Security Enhancements Reduced Surface Area IIS 6.0 introduced the lockdown by default approach. This was a significant shift from previous versions of ...

Understanding the Built-In User and Group Accounts in IIS 7.0

Introduction In previous versions of IIS, we had a local account created at install time called IUSR_MachineName. The IUSR_MachineName account was the default identity used by IIS whenever anonymous authentication was enabled. This was used by both the FTP ...

Using Encryption to Protect Passwords

Introduction This document provides an overview ofthe steps required for setting both application pool and worker process isolation for IIS 7.0 servers. Application pool isolation entails protecting data that WAS (the IIS 7.0local system process) needs to ...

Understanding IIS 7.0 URL Authorization

Introduction Authorization wasdifficult in previous versions of IIS. Because IIS only worked with Windows identities, you had to go to the file system and set Access Control Lists on files and directories. This was tedious because the ACL UI is complex and ...

How to Use Request Filtering

Introduction URLScan, a security tool, was provided as an add-on to earlier versions of IIS so administrators could enforce tighter security polices on their web servers. Within IIS 7.0,the IIS team hasincorporated all the core features of URLScan into a module ...

Configuring SSL in IIS Manager

Enabling powerful SSL security to protect your Web applications is simpler to setup with IIS Manager and easier to deploy with self-signed certificates in IIS 7.0. This tutorial covers adding self-signed certificates, creating certificates with a Certificate ...

How to Setup SSL on IIS 7.0

Introduction The high-level steps for configuring SSL are the same in IIS 7.0and IIS 6.0: Get an appropriate certificate Create an HTTPS binding on a site Test by making an request to the site Optionally configure SSL options, e.g. making SSL a requirement ...

How to Use Locking in IIS 7.0 Configuration

Abstract This document explains how to lock and unlock configuration on the server. You will learn what settingsthe application-level configuration files can overrideand how to use the location> element to lock entire sections. You will experiment with ...

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