—This paper discusses the security implications of Web Services and proposes a framework for providing security based on current and future requirements. The framework provides a basis for achieving end-to-end security for Web Services within the pre-existing security environment. Finally, lessons from initial experiences with Web Services security and advice for the future are provided. Web Se...

The Internet has provided an avenue for businesses to adopt web services. Web services promises scalability, agility, cost reduction, profitability and availability thereby meeting instant gratification needs of web users’. It refers to modular Internet-based business functions that perform specific business tasks to facilitate business interactions within and beyond the organization. While add...

Information security governance dominates the senior management’s agenda in overall organizational informance technology (IT) governance. The globalization trends encompassing all businesses, and risks of information leakage forces organizations to institute mechanisms to protect it. In order to achieve adequate level of protection, organizations implement information security management system...

The integration of security and forensics into Web Engineering curricula is imperative! Poor security in web-based applications is continuing to cost organizations millions and the losses are still increasing annually. Security is frequently taught as a stand-alone course, assuming that security can be 'bolted on' to a web application at some point. Security issues must be integrated into Web E...

Securing Web-based resources is one of the biggest challenges for IT today. Almost all IT organizations use security measures through authentication and authorization to protect their Web resources. Thus, it is vital for SAS Business Intelligence Web applications to integrate within a secure Web environment. This paper explores just that. SAS Business Intelligence Web applications are implement...

The study integrates web quality (system quality, information quality, and service quality), perceived interactivity (human-message, humanhuman), and web outcomes (web usage, web satisfaction, and web loyalty) to explore the ecommerce model of health websites. A survey of 1076 users of health websites was conducted to validate the proposed model. The findings show that web quality has significa...

The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) becomes an essential element of modern Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Among the available SOA implementations, Web Services are most preferable choice by the enterprises as they operate on simple Internet protocols. In principle, web services use SOAP protocol as a base for transmitting requests and responses in between service requester and se...