IIS vs. Apache: Which is the right security choice?
- Inherent server vulnerabilities. Despite the bad press Microsoft receives, the platforms are almost equally vulnerable to attacks. A recent search in the CERT Vulnerability Database yielded 28 hits for IIS vulnerabilities and 25 separate announcements of Apache vulnerabilities. That's as close as you get to a horse race in the information security world.
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