The hype surrounding Web services has reached crescendo proportions. That's not surprising given how eager some big information-technology companies are to find some sort of recurring, high-margin ...

The Web Services One Conference, at which developers plotted and planned a look for our next-generation Web infrastructure, wrapped up in Boston recently. Random security topics abounded within the ...

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The Web Services Interoperability Organization forms a working group to make sure that Web services security products can communicate with each other. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced on Tuesday publication of its WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 , serving as a guide for enabling secure, interoperable Web services. The ...

When you hear that security is one of the missing pieces of Web services, you’re probably listening to a discussion about complex SOAs that demand newfangled security protocols yet to be submitted to ...

No matter how big your company is or what it does, security is a primary consideration when choosing a Web service for all applications. This first in a series of three articles describes the 10 most ...

As Web services-based transactions grow, so does the need to secure those communications. That’s the idea behind an emerging standard know as Web Service Security (WS-Security). WS-Security allows Web ...

TO EXPLOIT THE advantages that Web services offer means opening up corporate applications at the API level to the broader Internet. CTOs worried about hackers taking over their Web sites are faced ...

XML is a wonderful advancement in data formatting, but it provides no inherent security. There are various XML security techniques, and this article provides a summary and comparison of the most ...

There are three vital parts to the open standards underlying Web services security. There’s authentication, which uses Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to exchange information about a ...