This is the second installment of a three-part article examining techniques used to architect secure Web services. Part one introduced a fictional company, The Internet Dictionary Company (TIDC) and ...

A number of unmet security needs remain, including nonrepudiation for transactions, securing credentials, use of covert channels to access services, use of SOAP to distribute malicious code, denial-of ...

COMMENT--The rise of internetworking was fueled by the use of network-level security technologies such as SSL, IPSec and firewall filtering to create a secure perimeter around an enterprise network.

As I mentioned in previous columns, there’s a new set of draft documents from the Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC) of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). SP 800-95, ...

Many Web-based services, from shopping to online word processing, allow computer programs to talk to each other and exchange user data across several Web sites without human intervention. Many of the ...

DataPower Technology Inc. last week joined a small but growing number of IT vendors offering products aimed at securing XML-based Web services applications. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company’s XS40 ...

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 ...

Web Services are arguably the most heterogenous distributed technology ever. A typical Web services setup will make use of many different technologies, object models and programming languages, which ...

At the Burton Group's Catalyst conference in San Francisco, IBM, Microsoft, BEA Systems, RSA Security and VeriSign will debut the publication of three new specifications extending WS-Security and ...

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) plans to hold a news briefing Tuesday on secure, interoperable Web services. Presenters will offer up news on WS-I Profiles and insight into ...

According to The Yankee Group, Nemertes Research and Burton Group, companies across a wide range of industries are embracing XML-based Web services, and 75% have deployed at least one XML Web service.

WEB SERVICES ARE primed to be the next big development for Internet-based applications and transactions. As with any new technology, security eventually surfaces in the discussion — and Web services ...