In our security-conscious era, Web services have surprisingly escaped scrutiny. That's a strange lapse given how these services are supposed to form the underpinning of our information infrastructure.

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 ...

Lockhart said there are an infinite number of ways for companies to use standards such as WS-Security and SOAP Message Security 1.0 to secure Web services messages. The WS-I is providing only a ...

WS-Security is the premier Web services standard that handles more complex authentication, confidentiality, and integrity for SOAP messages. It supports passwords, Kerberos, X.509 digital ...

With Web services, data comes from many different entry and exit points. As a result, many applications skirt the different checkpoints. For example, HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) data is often ...

WS-Security, co-authored by Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign and introduced in April 2002, defines a way to encrypt XML code for secure Web services, and is currently before the OASIS standards body.

Even with all the challenges of securing the cloud, cybersecurity has actually evolved into one of the advantages of migrating to public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). When you ...

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 ...

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.

If the blizzard of specifications related to Web services security has left you snow blind, you have plenty of company. WS-Security, from Microsoft, IBM, and VeriSign, deals with the protection ...

Security In their rush to implement Web services, some companies may be exposing themselves to new security risks that they may not fully understand, a security researcher said at the CanSecWest ...