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Many Web-based services, from shopping to online word processing, allow computer programs to talk to each other and exchange user data across several Web sites without human intervention. Many of the ...

COMMENT--The rise of internetworking was fueled by the use of network-level security technologies such as SSL, IPSec and firewall filtering to create a secure perimeter around an enterprise network.

From confidentiality, integrity, and availability to authentication, authorization, and audit, find out how you can employ best practices to make Web services secure. Eighteen months ago "Web services ...

This is the second installment of a three-part article examining techniques used to architect secure Web services. Part one introduced a fictional company, The Internet Dictionary Company (TIDC) and ...

Web services and binary attachments have proved a difficult pair to make work well together when it's time to implement security. But new functionality in Web Services Enhancement 3.0 (WSE3) should ...

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Security is important for any distributed computing environment. But, security is becoming even more important for Web services due to the following reasons: The boundary of interaction between ...

WEB SERVICES ARE primed to be the next big development for Internet-based applications and transactions. As with any new technology, security eventually surfaces in the discussion — and Web services ...

Securing Web services is easy: All you have to do is secure your Web server, secure every message flowing in and out of your server, secure every application that has anything to do with SOAP and XML, ...