Preventing Web Attacks with Apache

Foreword

Ryan Barnett recently asked if I’d write the foreword to his book. I was delighted to even be considered because Ryan is an exceptional security professional and the honor could have easily gone to anyone in the industry. Ryan has a background as someone who actively defends government web sites. He’s the person who led the effort to create the Apache Benchmark standard for the Center for Internet Security (CIS). He’s a co-author of the Web Security Threat Classification for the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC), and has more certifications than I knew existed. Ryan is also a SANS Instructor for Apache Security. There’s quite a bit more, but suffice it to say Ryan has to be one of the most-qualified experts to write Preventing ...