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 ...

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 forms a working group to make sure that Web services security products can communicate with each other. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

Web Services play a key role in implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The notion of describing the service independent of the technology in which it has been implemented has been robustly ...

A standards body is hoping to remove one of the biggest hurdles standing in the way of greater Web services adoption. The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Monday said that it has ...

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 ...

In their rush to implement Web services, some companies may be exposing themselves to new security risks they may not fully understand, a security researcher said at the CanSecWest/core06 conference ...

There are three vital parts to the open standards underlying Web services security. There’s authentication, which uses Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to exchange information about a ...