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 ...

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 ...

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/core06 ...

Sun Microsystems, sensing it has fallen behind rivals Microsoft and IBM in Web services leadership, is launching a renewed strategy in an attempt to play catch up. Senior Sun executives have issued an ...

Teros, a security device maker, announced on Monday its expansion from Web applications into Web services, in an effort to ride the wave of two popular trends. The privately held company is hoping to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

With Monday's release of AppScan 6.5, Waltham, Mass.-based Watchfire adds Web services vulnerability testing and improved compliance reporting to its flagship application security scanning solution.

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced on Tuesday publication of its WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0, serving as a guide to enable secure, interoperable Web services. The ...

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 ...

XML is a wonderful advancement in data formatting, but it provides no inherent security. There are various XML security techniques, and this article provides a summary and comparison of the most ...