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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...