Books: Preventing Webattacks with Apache

Posted on Jul 10, 2006

I just finished Preventing Webattacks with Apache by Ryan C. Barnett. Even though the title says it is about Apache it is really mostly about Mod_Security, and this is why i really love the book.

Especially cool is the part of the book where the author challenges the user to setup his ‘Buggy Bank’ example application to play with the vulnarebilities and with the possible counter measures.

This book got me even more exited about Mod_Security, which I use already to protect one webserver. I plan to check out setting up a reverse filtering web proxy soon.