Research Article
Web Server Security on Open Source Environments
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_22, author={Dimitrios Gkoutzelis and Manolis Sardis}, title={Web Server Security on Open Source Environments}, proceedings={Next Generation Society. Technological and Legal Issues. Third International Conference, e-Democracy 2009, Athens, Greece, September 23-25, 2009, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={E-DEMOCRACY}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={Open Source Security Practices Authentication Management}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_22} }- Dimitrios Gkoutzelis
Manolis Sardis
Year: 2012
Web Server Security on Open Source Environments
E-DEMOCRACY
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_22
Abstract
Administering critical resources has never been more difficult that it is today. In a changing world of software innovation where major changes occur on a daily basis, it is crucial for the webmasters and server administrators to shield their data against an unknown arsenal of attacks in the hands of their attackers. Up until now this kind of defense was a privilege of the few, out-budgeted and low cost solutions let the defender vulnerable to the uprising of innovating attacking methods. Luckily, the digital revolution of the past decade left its mark, changing the way we face security forever: open source infrastructure today covers all the prerequisites for a secure web environment in a way we could never imagine fifteen years ago. Online security of large corporations, military and government bodies is more and more handled by open source application thus driving the technological trend of the 21st century in adopting open solutions to E-Commerce and privacy issues. This paper describes substantial security precautions in facing privacy and authentication issues in a totally open source web environment. Our goal is to state and face the most known problems in data handling and consequently propose the most appealing techniques to face these challenges through an open solution.