Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

CMS Security Handbook:

The Comprehensive Guide for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone (Google eBook)
Front Cover
0 Reviews
John Wiley and Sons, Mar 31, 2011 - Computers - 456 pages
Learn to secure Web sites built on open source CMSs

Web sites built on Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, or Plone face some unique security threats. If you’re responsible for one of them, this comprehensive security guide, the first of its kind, offers detailed guidance to help you prevent attacks, develop secure CMS-site operations, and restore your site if an attack does occur. You’ll learn a strong, foundational approach to CMS operations and security from an expert in the field.

  • More and more Web sites are being built on open source CMSs, making them a popular target, thus making you vulnerable to new forms of attack
  • This is the first comprehensive guide focused on securing the most common CMS platforms: Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, and Plone
  • Provides the tools for integrating the Web site into business operations, building a security protocol, and developing a disaster recovery plan
  • Covers hosting, installation security issues, hardening servers against attack, establishing a contingency plan, patching processes, log review, hack recovery, wireless considerations, and infosec policy

CMS Security Handbook is an essential reference for anyone responsible for a Web site built on an open source CMS.

  

What people are saying - Write a review

We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.

Related books

Contents

Introduction to CMS Security and Operations
1
Choosing the Right Hosting Company
29
Preventing Problems Before They Start
69
Baselining Your Existing Website
97
Understanding Hardware Vulnerabilities
107
Hardening the Server Against Attack
119
Establishing a Workable Disaster Recovery Plan
171
ServerSide Backup and Restoration Methods
190
Patching Process
221
Log Review
253
Hack Recovery
287
Wireless Networks
319
Information Security Policy and Awareness
341
Appendix A Security Tools Port Vulnerabilities and Apache Tips
359
Appendix B Acronyms and Terminology
383
Index
391

CMS Backup and Restoration Methods
198
Additional Considerations
218

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2011)

Tom Canavan is a computer industry professional whose career goes from the mainframe era to the cloud. He is recognized as one of the very few top security experts in the CMS space, and was a keynote speaker and featured presenter at CMS Expo 2010 on CMS security.

Bibliographic information