Secure use of the World Wide Web: keeping browsers and servers from getting snared

Author

Pescatore, John

Author_Institution

Trusted Inf. Syst. Inc., Rockville, MD, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

4-6 Nov 1996

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

39

Abstract

Use of the World Wide Web has exploded in industry, with browsers on every desktop and a server in every division. The use of WWW technology for internal information networks (intranets) has further accelerated business dependence on WWW software. The architecture of the WWW was designed to support sharing of information, and it offers businesses a way to do so at an attractively low cost of ownership. However, there is still no such thing as a free lunch. Web servers and browsers have many vulnerabilities that make it easy for the wrong people to get access to sensitive business information. In addition, since software product life cycles have dropped to six months or shorter, new versions of WWW software products are rushed to market without a level of testing sufficient to assure secure operation. This TIS Trusted Bulletin provides guidelines for secure business use of the World Wide Web

Keywords

Internet; business data processing; information retrieval; internetworking; network servers; security of data; TIS Trusted Bulletin; WWW software; WWW software products; WWW technology; Web servers; World Wide Web; browsers; business dependence; business information; information sharing; internal information networks; intranets; secure business use; secure use; servers; software product life cycles; Acceleration; Computer architecture; Costs; Guidelines; Life testing; Network servers; Software testing; Web server; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Northcon/96

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3277-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NORTHC.1996.564729

Filename

564729