Securing Microsoft's Internet Information Server 5.0

Internet Information Server (IIS) 5 is Microsoft's premier web server product and is fully integrated into the Windows 2000 operating system. It supports many of the latest Internet standards for creating and sharing web based applications. This paper will provide IIS administrators with the steps to secure their web server installations. Please note that although this paper deals with Windows 2000 and IIS 5 some of the following guidelines can be applied to older versions of those products.