Designing Secure Web-Based Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000

Windows® 2000 provides a host of innovative services to satisfy the most demanding security needs. DESIGNING SECURE WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS FOR MICROSOFT® WINDOWS 2000 provides an authoritative, end-to-end view of all the major Windows 2000 security services. This book gives you a solid foundation in Microsoft Windows 2000, Internet Explorer, Internet Information Services, SQL Server™, and COM+ security concepts. It explains the key software design considerations for various categories and levels of security and shows how isolated security “islands” interact. It also explains core security issues such as risk analysis, threats, authentication, authorization, and privacy, and it shows how you can mitigate risks by applying the appropriate security to your environment and applications. The author uses Web services, certificates, components, and database access to build a complex Web-based security solution (included on CD-ROM) to show how Windows 2000 security features work in tandem to protect applications and data. Packed with the latest Web security insights, this book covers topics such as: