Web services represent a powerful model that allows for remote data exchange using Internet standard protocols in a platform- and language-neutral way. This message-based approach, transmitted via ...

Microsoft released on Tuesday a toolkit designed to help software programmers tighten security in Web services applications. The toolkit, called Web Services Enhancements (WSE) version 2, will let ...

Though it was initially hailed as the Holy Grail of interoperable computing, most companies have pursued only limited adoption of Web services. On the Internet, Web services have been relegated to ...

XML standards body OASIS ratifies WS-Security as a standard, considered a milestone in making Web services a viable alternative to proprietary security systems. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

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 ...

The Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML) isn’t the only Web services security specification under way. In June, IBM, Microsoft Corp. and VeriSign Inc. submitted the latest version of the Web ...

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 the publication of the WS-I Basic Security Profile (BSP) 1.0 as final material for public access. BSP 1.0 is an essential guide for ...

Recent ratification of two key standards means that web services security has finally reached a level of maturity acceptable to many enterprises, Gartner has reported. The analyst firm's comments come ...

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 ...