Securing Web services: practical usage of standards and specifications

Panos Periorellis

IGI Global Snippet, 2008 - Computers - 404 pages

Web services are a business-driven technology, as they have arisen from a need for on-demand services and just-in-time integration to enable the rapid exploitation of market opportunities. Security challenges have accelerated alongside the rapid advances in this domain.
The security requirement standards address a number of security and dependability issues. Securing Web Services: Practical Usage of Standards and Specifications collects a complete set of studies that address the security and dependability challenges of Web services and the development of protocols to meet those challenges. Encompassing a complete range of topics including specifications for message level security, transactions, and identity management, this Premier Reference Source enables libraries to provide researchers with an authoritative guide to one of the most challenging technological topics of our time.

Contents

• Security in ServiceOriented Architecture Issues Standards and Implementations: 1
• A Retrospective on the Development of Web Service Specifications: 22
• Secure Web Service Composition Issues and Architectures: 50

Bibliographic information

• Title: Securing Web services: practical usage of standards and specifications; Gale Reference; Gale virtual reference library; IGI Global research collection; ITPro collection; Premier reference source
• Editor: Panos Periorellis
• Contributor: Panos Periorellis
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: IGI Global Snippet, 2008
• ISBN: 1599046415, 9781599046419
• Length: 404 pages
• Subjects: Computers / General; Computers / Security / General; Computers / Security / Online Safety & Privacy; Computers / Web / Web Services & APIs; Technology & Engineering / General