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Web Services Security Challenges. Based on underlying technologies that already have security challenges Web services complexities pose new potential problems Concerns with security standards and their adoption by system and component vendors Overlapping and possibly incompatible standards.
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Web Services Security Challenges • Based on underlying technologies that already have security challenges • Web services complexities pose new potential problems • Concerns with security standards and their adoption by system and component vendors • Overlapping and possibly incompatible standards
Web services standards • Standards for describing, discovering, and invoking web services • Based on XML • Represent data totally independent of application, protocol, vocabulary, OS, programming language • Described using XML schema • Standards organizational committees: • World wide web consortium (W3C) • Organization for the advancement of structured information standards (OASIS) • Web services interoperability (WS-I) organization • Liberty alliance • Internet engineering task force (IETF)
Web services security standards • Several security-related specifications for providing security for web Services including: • WS-Security • Web Services Security Addendum • WS-Security Policy • WS-Trust • WS-Secure Conversation • Web Services Security Profile for XML-based Tokens • WS-Federation • WSPL (Web Services Policy Language) • The Liberty Alliance Project • These security protocols can bind to Web services messaging protocols • Designed to be modular and composable, to allow developers to use just the required capabilities • Key to the success of Web services is open standards and interoperability among service providers