16 Feb
2011
16 Feb
'11
5:42 p.m.
On 2/16/11 5:27 PM, Peter Karunyu wrote:
I am locked in a sort of argument with another techie...
Said techie says that, for an internet facing web server, using a non-standard port, e.g. 8080 is safer than using port 80.
Safer? - re security through obscurity!
But I just don't get it. So, specifically for Apache running on RHEL, how safer is a non standard port compared to the default port?
ports dont offer any security on the protocol itself. They only reduce the number of scans and attempts, since most are made on the standard ports. Regards, Michuki.