Internet Services

This chapter covers the common Internet services that most companies provide for public access. These services make up the Internet presence of the company. These services might interact with each other to provide the service to the public. This interaction itself might raise various security risks not associated with the devices on their own.

TCP/IP operates using what is called a port as a connection endpoint. The port is what TCP/IP uses to differentiate among the services within the TCP/IP protocol suite. All Internet services use ports; some use User Datagram Protocol (UDP), but most use TCP.

The following is a list of the common Internet services that most corporate businesses employ as part of their public Internet offering. ...

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