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 ...

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 right ...

SAML, WS-Security emerge to meld native security into protocols.

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

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 ...

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.

WS-Security details the mechanisms by which a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) message can describe not only its contents but also its credentials, and the algorithms by which your XML packet ...

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 ...

The WS-I plans to release a draft of its Basic Security Profile, which will deal with how to use WS-Security and SOAP Message Security--among other standards--in Web services-based transactions ...

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 ...

The specification that will serve as the foundation for building security into Web services was officially ratified as a standard last week, paving the way for widespread corporate adoption.

For example, administrators can use multiple versions of the Security Assertion Markup Language 1.1/1.0 and WS-Security 2004/2002 without compromising existing security rules. Forum UPM is integrated ...