Re: NT/2000 vs Unix based Web Servers

From: Johan De Meersman (johan@ops.skynet.be)
Date: 07/12/02 

Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 17:04:38 +0200
From: Johan De Meersman <johan@ops.skynet.be>
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com

how about you take whatever webserver you fancy, and throw a *nix
firewall in front of it ? :)

Corio, Jim wrote:

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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.
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>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
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>
>
>>-----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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