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Found a great article in TechNet Magazine from Marnie Hutcheson, it’s covering:
- Prevent automated attacks from reaching legitimate Web domains
- Automatically divert attacks into a dead end
- Get a single log that shows all attack traffic

In this article, I will present an easily implemented strategy that uses HTTP 1.1 host headers to divert port 80 attacks away from unsecured public Web sites into a dead end where they can’t do damage.

There’s also a good checklist in the sidebar, with Hardening Your Web Server.

Read the full article at source