Information Security for Web Services – Proactive and Reactive Security Techniques

Over the past years, e-learning portals helped teachers to streamline learning process, users to decrease associated costs involved in traditional learning process and in this way customer satisfaction was increased and the impact of this teaching method increased worldwide. Web servers are a fundamental component for almost every e-learning application. In this paper we will categorize the most frequent security threats associated with web and SQL services and present the ways to mitigate security threats such as distributed denial of services attacks on web services using the capabilities of a network device from a recognized leader in network security.