RE: NT/2000 vs Unix based Web Servers

From: Corio, Jim (jim.corio@attws.com)
Date: 07/10/02 

From: "Corio, Jim" <jim.corio@attws.com>
To: "'Mario Behring'" <mariobehring@yahoo.com>, security-basics@securityfocus.com
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:24:56 -0400

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I would say that you should run the web server on the Operating system
that you are most familiar with in an environment that you are most
familiar with. If you are a Windows administrator, then you will run
the risk of misconfiguring a UNIX box and Apache when you make the
move.

One of the biggest failures in web site security is that you have to
maintain both a system and an application and that is where most
website exploitations happen is that they do one and not the other.
Run the application on the OS that you are familiar with (and can take
the steps to secure).

Jimmy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mario Behring [mailto:mariobehring@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 9:25 AM
> To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
> Subject: NT/2000 vs Unix based Web Servers
>
>
> Hi list,
>
> I have some websites running on Microsoft IIS on NT/2000 servers and
I
> have to justify a possible change to Unix servers running Apache or
> IPlanet using CORBA. The reason is only one, more secure web
> servers and
> more secure web sites.
>
> Can you guys give me your opinion and some arguments whether
> should I do
> this change or not ?? Costs are not an issue here, please give me
> technical and security arguments.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mario Behring
>
>
>
>
>
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