This book shows readers -- whether they work for a Fortune 500 company or run their own small Web-based store -- how to protect themselves and their businesses from the ever-increasing threat of hackers. It provides insights into the tools and techniques that hackers use to compromise sites and gives Web architects and engineers instructions on how to use those insights to design and implement better security measures. Beginning with the story of how one hacker managed to cripple the Web, it covers secure credit card transactions, content networking, redundancy and reliability, and security secrets, as well as configuring Cisco's LocalDirector and DistributedDirector.