Chapter 5. Securing Tomcat 7

The Internet has created a revolution in the 21st century; it provides us the capability of collecting information in seconds, whereas it would have taken months to collect the information previously. This has also raised security concerns for information privacy and has created the requirement of securing information over the Internet.

Everyday, new technologies are emerging to improve Internet usage for applications. With these technologies in the market, it becomes a tricky job for hackers and other communities to access secure information.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Tomcat security permissions
  • Catalina properties
  • SSL implementation on Tomcat 7

Tomcat Manager

The security being a major concern ...

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