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Ensuring Web Services Security Through Automated Identity Testing
White Papers And because there is no standard methodology for testing identities, roles, and access controls within Web services, application developers must try to anticipate and test every possible use case they can dream up.
[May 3, 2006, 7:54]
Sun Sets Pace For Web Services Security
News The company has already quietly published one new standard for streamlining Web services, and is beginning work on a security specification intended to make Web services less vulnerable to computer attacks, sources said.
[June 17, 2002, 11:27]
Battle For Web Services Standard Continues
News Unlike its competing proposal, WS-ReliableMessaging was designed to operate well with another Microsoft and IBM-backed Web services standard called WS-Security, Norsworthy said. A group of software makers, led by IBM and Microsoft, announced a...
[March 14, 2003, 11:28]
Web Services Security Spec Ready For Deployment
News The Web Services Security, or WS-Security, technical committee within the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) on Wednesday said several security-related technical specifications have been accepted by the...
[April 8, 2004, 10:05]
Microsoft Plans New Web Services Push
News Microsoft is developing new security software it hopes will make Web services and its entire product lineup more appealing to big companies. TrustBridge is based on Web services security work done by Microsoft in conjunction with IBM and VeriSign.
[June 6, 2002, 9:42]
Flamenco Dances Into Web Services
News The product supports the most recent Web services security standard called WS-Security. The company is looking to complement existing security firewalls and network management tools to block potentially malicious Web services messages and improve...
[January 13, 2003, 15:30]
Microsoft Extends ID Management
News Along with IBM, the company has been a cheerleader for the adoption of the Web Services standard by the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS. Microsoft's interoperability demonstration is the latest move in...
[May 25, 2004, 8:45]
Novell Emphasises Open-source Commitment
News Company executives also underscored Novell's commitment to incorporating Web services standards within its products, including the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) standard for locating Web services on a network.
[April 16, 2003, 10:19]
New Passport Privacy Tied To IE 6
News Passport is a key component of Microsoft's upcoming .Net and HailStorm Web services initiatives and is required for using some of Windows XP's newest features, such as Windows Messenger, a communications console featuring instant messaging...
[August 10, 2001, 8:58]
Out With The Old, Bring In The New -- Firewalls?
News XML and Web services provide a standard mechanism and afford corporations a new opportunity to implement product offerings from smaller firms, including Flamenco Networks, Forum Systems, Reactivity, Vordel, and Westbridge Technology, instead of...
[January 28, 2003, 10:47]
Oracle Appeals To W3C On Web Services
News Sun, for example, first balked at supporting a Web services security specification, called WS-Security, until its three creators -- Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign -- agreed to make the technology royalty-free.
[September 11, 2002, 14:55]
Liberty - Is Usability Compatible With Security?
News Not in itself a product or a service, Liberty is a specification which services will use to communicate authentication information.the Liberty specification is based on another newly released standard, the Security Assertion Markup Language (see...
[July 16, 2002, 14:17]
Liberty Alliance And Passport Still Poles Apart
News Sun initiated the Liberty Alliance in September, drawing support from major airlines, security software companies and financial services companies. The system will also play a key role in Microsoft's forthcoming .Net My Services plan, a Web...
[February 20, 2002, 9:06]
Liberty Alliance Adds Tech Muscle
News Such identity systems are an essential ingredient if next-generation Web services are to actually become mainstream, bringing useful new Internet services to businesses and consumers. Sun is counting on Liberty to become part of the pantheon of Web...
[August 29, 2002, 10:01]
Build Next-generation Applications Now
News One of the biggest benefits of deploying Web services now is the ability to implement Internet standard, TCP/IP port-based security to eliminate dependencies on security issues created by using technologies like NetBIOS or RMI.
[June 6, 2002, 13:33]
The Folly Of Single Sign-on
News But no security is 100 percent fail-proof, a fact driven home last month when online financial service PayPal, an eBay subsidiary, warned customers that a flaw had leaked their email addresses to the Web.
[June 3, 2005, 13:00]
Managing Your Systems Remotely And Securely
News This approach uses a standard Web connection via SSL to connect to the remote KVM device, and it offers local authentication or authentication via LDAP or RADIUS. You could address these issues by running a Terminal Services server, remotely...
[July 5, 2005, 10:35]
Google Launches Apps For Enterprise Teams
News Google offers security and government regulation compliance services for those editions through its Postini acquisition. These editions give an administrator control over how the apps are used, allowing for services to be disabled, new services...
[February 7, 2008, 10:07]
Business: IM Is Getting Out Of Control
News Business users definitely are demanding these services, but for the most part they haven't demanded strong security," Kobielus said. Kobielus lauded Jabber, a commercial product based on open-source development organisation Jabber.org, for using...
[April 26, 2001, 15:14]
J2EE Vs .Net: Making That Vital Development Decision
News If the investment is in Microsoft, you have to be willing to believe that Microsoft will solve its security problems (or that you can continue to architect around them) and be glad that your developers can make a relatively smooth transition from...
[June 13, 2002, 15:45]
