The Web services security movement will have to build a consistent security layer across all platforms -- and also set up inspection points where all SOAP messages are checked.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WS-Security, among the most popular and mature of the standards, was developed by a coalition of vendors under the umbrella of OASIS, the prime standards body for Web services. It specifies the ...

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 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 ...

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.