There are several methods that you can use to protect the WebSphere Application Server infrastructure and applications from different forms of attack. Several different techniques can help with multiple forms of attack. Sometimes a single attack can leverage multiple forms of intrusion to achieve the end goal.
Why and when to perform this task
For example, in the simplest case, network sniffing can be used to obtain passwords and those passwords can then be used to mount an application-level attack. The following issues are discussed in IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: WebSphere Application Server V5 advanced security and system hardening:Steps for this task
Related tasks
Tuning, hardening, and maintaining