Security Enhancements

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 with SP1

IIS 6.0 includes a variety of security features and technologies that help ensure the integrity of your Web site content, and of the data that is transmitted through your sites. The following security enhancement is only available when IIS 6.0 is running in worker process isolation mode.

Default process identity for Web sites and applications set to NetworkService

In IIS 5.0 isolation mode, the default process identity is LocalSystem, which enables access to, and the ability to alter, nearly all of the resources on the Web server.