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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781847194886
ISBN: 1847194885
Label: Packt Publishing
Manufacturer: Packt Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 264
Publication Date: October 15, 2008
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Studio: Packt Publishing
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Joomla! is one of the most powerful open-source content management systems used to build websites and other powerful online applications. While Joomla! itself is inherently safe, misconfigurations, vulnerable components, poorly configured hosts, and weak passwords can all contribute to the downfall of your site. So, you need to know how to secure your website from security threats.
Today every website needs to take security into consideration. Using the knowledge here, your Joomla! site can be ahead of the security threats so prevalent today.
This book will take you all the way from the most basic steps of preparation to the nuts and bolts of actual protection. It is packed full of relevant and real-world topics such as security tools, configuration suggestions, setting up your test and development environment, reading and interpreting log files, and techniques used by bad hackers on the Internet. In addition to this you will learn how to respond to a site emergency should one occur and how to collect the evidence needed to pursue law enforcement action. The book provides a concise overview of all the parts needed to construct a defence-in-depth strategy for your Joomla! site.
At the end of the book you will have a solid security foundation to take your Joomla! website to a higher level of security than the basic site setup.
What you will learn from this book?
This book covers:
- Implementing steps for successful Joomla! website architecture
- Setting up metrics to measure security
- Exploring the test and development environment; developing your test plan to make sure everything will work as planned
- Utilizing your test and development site for disaster recovery
- Measuring the performance of your software development projects using a software development management system
- Exploring several tools to help protect your website
- Diving into security vulnerabilities: why they exist; some typical counter measures
- Exploring SQL Injections - how they can hurt you and how to prevent them
- Mastering the two important security layers - php.ini and .htaccess
- Reading and analyzing logs relevant to protecting your Joomla! site
- Handling Security Incidents in a professional manner
- Blocking nuisance IP addresses
Approach
This book will give you a strong, hands-on approach to security. It starts out with the most basic of considerations such as choosing the right hosting sites then moves quickly into securing the Joomla! site and servers. This is a security handbook for Joomla! sites. It is an easy-to-use guide that will take you step by step into the world of secured websites.
Who this book is written for?
This book is a must-read for anyone seriously using Joomla! for any kind of business, ranging from small retailers to larger businesses. With this book they will be able to secure their sites, understand the attackers, and more, without the drudging task of looking up in forums, only to be flamed, or not even find the answers.
Prior knowledge of Joomla! is expected but no prior knowledge of securing websites is needed for this book. The reader will gain a moderate to strong level of knowledge on strengthening their sites against hackers.
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Given joomla's intended audience, I'm sure there are a lot of inexperienced users that will benefit greatly from this book. Basically gives you an overview of the concepts and programs you'll need to have a security plan in place as a small developer (imo joomla's main user base.)
Experienced Joomla developers can likely still get a thing or two out of reading it, though nothing contained herein should be a surprise (if you consider yourself experienced at least). Discussions on documentation and formulation of emergency plans & procedures are useful because it's perhaps something many self-taught/employed people are likely to be lacking. Quick enough that it's not at all a wasted read for me, and I learned about a few security tools that are joomla specific I wasn't otherwise aware of. In fact it sits on my shelf with other books to serve as a reference should I need it (which is to say it's useful enough it's not at the used book store.)
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As an administrator of Greece's biggest Joomla! forum over the past three years (forum.joomla.gr), I was always shocked to see how light-heartedly web security was deferred to the Greek Calends not only by young Joomla! enthusiasts who simply wanted to set up their own place on the web but also by website developers who had to get the job finished and delivered to their unaware clients as soon as possible. Then, some day a bug would be discovered in Joomla!'s core code or one of its extensions, sites would be defaced, data would be lost and a long list of messages starting with "HELP!" would appear on our forum. Once a fix was released, the sites were restored, and everything was back in order, interest in web security would drop back to nil until the next server was compromised.
No matter whether you are developing your own website, whether somebody else has developed your website for your, or whether you are a professional website administrator that has always been interested ... Read More
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I am a member of the New York Joomla group and a just love Joomla.
This is "a must" read book for all people that care about the security of a website. The book offers an excellent primer on basic web-security. It is written for the person who has not yet mastered the skills needed to properly secure a website.
For the Joomla user it covers many issues specific to the Joomla versions 1.0.x and 1.5.x. The book is written in simple language so that a non-tech person can understand the concepts. As a skilled and experienced Joomla user and host provider, I found many tips that can help me in monitoring the security of systems I administer.
The coverage of tools available and the appendix is alone worth the price alone.
Too often server and site security is not appreciated. Because of the simplicity of setting up a website, it is often assumed that everything is secure. That is not the case and the person managing a website needs to know what to look ... Read More
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I got the book a few weeks ago. For a Joomla! newbie the book gives some pretty cool advice. I liked the fact that it not only discusses Joomla! but also how to choose and secure the server it is hosted on.
From php.ini to .htaccess to fighting SQL injections, this book has it all. And it's a nice read too. I liked Tom Canavan's writing style. For a technical book, this is really entertaining.
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Sometimes, I think web developers who use Joomla! mistakenly believe that all security measures are built into the Joomla code. While perhaps partially true, adequate security is based actions of at least 3 different groups: The Joomla! development team, the web host, and the web developer who decides to use Joomla! and the decisions they make in setting up and using Joomla! This book does a really great job to educate the web developer about these roles and steps they can take, and really should make standard, in developing any/all Joomla! sites.
Joomla! Web Security is rich with tasks to organize and protect Joomla! sites. I found it very useful, and I am still learning from this book. While I have very good html/css skills and OK php skills, I knew little about server administration when I started reading this book, yet the author's writing style made learning these new skills very easy. He also frequently refers readers to valuable web sites that offer additional information. ... Read More
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