Secure Document Circulation Using Web Services Technologies

This paper discusses two issues. The first is the need for model driven security for Service-Oriented Computing environments to address the lack of support for specifying the security requirements of Web Services during the earlier phases of the development process. The second issue revolves around supporting secure document circulation in inter-domain, decentralized environments, and specifically, how to use model driven security and Web Services technologies to realize the design and implementation of this respectively. It is aimed that addressing both of these issues will contribute toward providing security for interorganizational workflows which spread across multiple domains.