Building A Strategic Extranet Increase Your Business Agility with an Extranet Find out how successful companies around the globe are using extranets to gain a strategic advantage. With clear instructions and dozens of real-world examples, award-winning author Bryan Pfaffenberger demonstrates how to use existing intranet and Internet technologies to develop a robust extranet at minimal cost. Filled with sound business and management considerations, Building a Strategic Extranet offers authoritative, up-to-date information on extranet standards and tools, and addresses all of the issues posed by extranets -- including content development, architecture, implementation, and security. Your Complete Guide to Planning and Implementing a Successful Extranet Evaluate a prototype extranet Review the fundamentals of enterprise networking Understand the pros and cons of Windows NT and UNIX architectures Master TCP/IP security issues Build secure cryptosystems Implement a virtual private network Choose the right extranet topology Select state-of-the-art applications that are easy to implement Explore the differences between available browsers and servers Master the latest tools for extranet content development Estimate the costs of your extranet http: //www.idgbooks.com
The book is well-written and, even three years later, much of the discussion is valuable reference. Of course, the information on specific products is dated. However, the material on security/encryption schemes and authentication is first rate and clear. The guidance on extranet design approaches is still valid. This book should be in second edition by now. If it is, buy the 2nd edition new. As a used book, the security and authentication parts are worth a discounted price.
A thorough and well researched treatment of Extranets
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The author treats issues such as setting up a CA, authenticating browsers, choosing encryption algorithms and securing the https server well. It's very HTTP focused, and barely touches on how to get from the EDI way of doing things to the extranet way, but it's easily the best book on the topic I've seen. He has an unfortunate tendency to get off topic, for example delving into how to choose a browser, why tcp/ip is insecure, etc., but overall the book is well written.
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