Networking Security Engineering

The advance in communications and technology is compelling us to share information all over the world and which in turn paved the way for E-Commerce. The virtual business done on Web now has undergone a great transformation and taking giant leaps. But in that course of development there are number of threats that affect negatively that aspect of doing business on the net. The unwanted intruders can deface the site to damage the companys reputation, denial of service to authorised service users that result in loss of business and the theft of private information pushes the company into legal turmoil. If the Web server root directory was same as the ftp server root directory and if one was able to upload a PHP script to a world-writeable ftp directory then the PHP script can execute UNIX commands and creates a shell server bound to high port which will open. To avoid this micro content management system can be designed to extract the maximum potential from the content and at the same time the data stored as XML within a native XML must searchable using Xpath. This gives to execute Xpath via a URL from within users browser.

Keywords: communications, technology, network security, E-commerce, internet security, backup, automated system