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Microsoft Attempts to Secure IIS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the taking-their-own-sweet-time dept.

billmaly writes: "Yahoo has this article about trying to make IIS more secure. Among steps is to have it install in its most secure state, putting the onus on sysadmins to remove it from that state. It looks like Microsoft may be trying to do the right thing from a security standpoint, at least on paper."

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  1. IIS Secure? by zarathustra93 · · Score: 5, Troll

    Open the source. Put it up for peer review. Fix the holes. I'm not saying that they should hand out the source for their whole OS, but when they have had as many debacles with one piece of software it might actually help them out quite a bit.

    I refuse to install products that require IIS as well. A software provider of ours makes an ultra nice business mining product that can be nicely web enabled. I told them that I would purchase it as soon as they supported a web server that didn't have a new security flaw or bug discovered every week.