Creating and Consuming Web Services in Visual Basic®

Equipment Deployment

One of the easiest things to do to secure your corporate data is to use hardware in an intelligent way. When deploying a publicly accessible Web Service, you will want to expose as little of your internal infrastructure as necessary. There are a number of things you will want to do:

• Put your database machines behind a firewall.

• Use hardware to protect your equipment. For example, rely on routers instead of software firewalls.

  Hardware is typically faster at routing and is easier to lockdown. The software firewall may have unknown interactions with which to deal.

• Make use of a demilitarized zone (DMZ). In other words, only put the machine serving the Web Service on the public Internet.

The basic theme in equipment deployment, ...