Many organizations and industry uses the World Wide Web for the exchange and dissemination of information. Electronic transactions are also made in the internet for the convenience of the both the organizations and its prospective clients, but as we all web browsers and servers are subjected to intruders that can change or alter information as well as disrupting operations of this public websites.

Recently the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued Special Publication (SP) 800-44, Guidelines on Securing Public Web Servers written by Miles Tracy, Wayne Jansen, and Mark McLarnon for the purpose of helping agencies to improve the security, design, implementation, and operation of their web servers. Careful planning and implementation of the plan as well as continuous monitoring and updating of the systems used can increase the level of security.