Summary

A secure Web server provides a protected foundation for hosting your Web applications. This chapter has shown you the main threats that have the potential to impact your ASP.NET Web server and has provided the security steps required for risk mitigation. By performing the hardening steps presented in this chapter, you can create a secure platform and host infrastructure to support ASP.NET Web applications and Web services.

The methodology used in this chapter allows you to build a secure Web server from scratch and also allows you to harden the security configuration of an existing Web server. The next step is to ensure that any deployed applications are correctly configured.