Building an Extranet

by Bryan Pfaffenberger

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764531255
• ISBN13: 9780764531255
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Good overview coverage of Extranet issues

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

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.