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.

The Web Services Interoperability Organization forms a working group to make sure that Web services security products can communicate with each other.

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 ...

WS-Security defines how to use username/ password pairs, Kerberos and public key technology to provide security services for SOAP messages. It also allows the use of other approaches. Because it tells ...

The WS-I said that the security profile will be an extension to the WS-I's basic profile, which describes how to comply with low-level Web services communications specifications, including 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 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 ...

Lockhart said there are an infinite number of ways for companies to use standards such as WS-Security and SOAP Message Security 1.0 to secure Web services messages. The WS-I is providing only a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.