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 ...

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 ...

Security researchers also should be paying more attention to the issue, Stamos said. “We want to get more security people looking at Web services stuff,” he said.

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 ...

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.

In our security-conscious world, it is no surprise that security has emerged as the first - and perhaps the most critical - issue currently facing Web services.

The foundation of TrustBridge is Kerberos Version 5, a standard authentication service that is supported in Active Directory, and a proposed Web services security specification called WS-Security.

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.

W3C tends to be the home for core XML Web services standards, including SOAP, XML Digital Signature (DSIG) and XML Encryption. OASIS tends to have higher-level standards.

WS-Security, a widely supported proposal for securing Web services, could become an official OASIS standard by March.OASIS in mid-February anticipates a full-membership vote on the WS-Security ...

Security software company Netegrity and partners publish Web services security guidelines, as WS-Security and SAML standards move forward. Written by Martin LaMonica, Contributor Sept. 22, 2003, 9 ...

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 ...