The hype surrounding Web services has reached crescendo proportions. That's not surprising given how eager some big information-technology companies are to find some sort of recurring, high-margin ...

COMMENTARY--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 ...

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, the group's Security Profile Working Group released the Security Scenarios Working Group Draft for public review. The 48-page document outlines common threats, ...

With Monday's release of AppScan 6.5, Waltham, Mass.-based Watchfire adds Web services vulnerability testing and improved compliance reporting to its flagship application security scanning solution.

The software maker is set to announce plans for technology that will allow businesses to verify user identities between companies and applications using Web services standards. Mike Ricciuti joined ...

Software designers and developers are being challenged to build efficient security measures into their project work as computing is increasingly distributed via Web application services and ...

No matter how big your company is or what it does, security is a primary consideration when choosing a Web service for all applications. This article will look at the 10 most important factors that ...

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 ...

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. The full ...

If the blizzard of specifications related to Web services security has left you snow blind, you have plenty of company. WS-Security, from Microsoft, IBM, and VeriSign, deals with the protection and ...