Security considerations when giving access to SQL Server db for a web application
- by rem
I need to expose our SQL Server 2008 database for an access from a asp.net web application.
This is a new task for me, so I would like to know what basic security requirements are there for configuring software and hardware components of web server and DB Server.
Is it OK to have both Web Server (Windows Server 2008) with IIS holding ASP.NET application and SQL Server 2008 on the same machine?
Should I have to install additional firewall, like Forefront TMG? Should it be on separate computer?
In case a web application is hosted on an external web hosting privider server and SQL Server DB on a our internal server what are "pro's" and "con's" of such configuration?