>> We're running a couple of Windows Web Server 2008 servers with IIS7 and CF >> MX7. >> >> What security/AV software are you guys running on this sort of setup? > >Are you avoiding the use of file uploads? Have you properly secured >the filesystem and limited the permissions of the CF service account? >If the answer to both of these is "yes", you don't really need AV >software on a web server. If you do allow file uploads, you might want >to use AV specifically to scan the directory where you allow these >uploaded files (which of course should not be in a web-accessible >directory). You can use any AV software that can be limited to >scanning a directory when it changes. > >There are all kinds of other "security" software: host-based >firewalls, web application filters, change monitoring tools like >Tripwire, etc. >
>> We're running a couple of Windows Web Server 2008 servers with IIS7 and CF >> MX7. >> >> What security/AV software are you guys running on this sort of setup? > >Are you avoiding the use of file uploads? Have you properly secured >the filesystem and limited the permissions of the CF service account? >If the answer to both of these is "yes", you don't really need AV >software on a web server. If you do allow file uploads, you might want >to use AV specifically to scan the directory where you allow these >uploaded files (which of course should not be in a web-accessible >directory). You can use any AV software that can be limited to >scanning a directory when it changes. > Thanks Dave, Yes we do do a lot of file uploads as we serve a lot of media files audio,video, games downloads etc. Is there any AV software you'd recommend for a server? We don't want any sort of real time scanning but something we can run periodically. Thanks, Ian. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-server/message.cfm/messageid:6999 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-server/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-server/unsubscribe.cfm
