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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Even with all the challenges of securing the cloud, cybersecurity has ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY--No one is quite sure how quickly Web services are taking off, but three things are very clear. Firstly, security is the biggest obstacle to people adopting Web services. Secondly, they are ...

Software designers and developers are being challenged to build efficient security measures into their project work as computing is increasingly distributed via Web application services and ...

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 ...

Westbridge Technology is among a handful of start-ups addressing security challenges created by XML-based Web services. Next month, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company plans to ship its XML ...

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 ...