Monday, April 16, 2007

Securing a Website

I was recently charged of the task of creating a secure site for clients to log into and retreive archived reports, podcasts etc... Ok, so simple task, right? WRONG? I am by no means a web developer or designer. I had several tasks to complete..

1. The site needs client login. Only clients who pay for the services are allowed access.
2. Since we only want the people who pay for the service to access the material, we need client side certificates.
3. Users name and password must be secure. So the down and dirty .htaccess will not work here.

I am sure that other tasks will arise the more I research this.
I have decided to use MS Access and ASP to do this. Wish me luck... :)

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