Web service composition and workflow language enable the definition and execution of business process in various application domains. Security is now a major concern for us to implement business process in the context of web service. Meanwhile policy-based approach is becoming popular for the dynamic specification and regulation of web service constraints. We are going to propose a security fra...

The service-oriented architecture paradigm slowly matures towards some kind of “Web Service Internet” where basically everybody may use the services others provide. Though this evolution enables lots of opportunities for electronic business, it also induces many new security issues to consider. One important security threat to SOA consists in request floodings, which—being intentional or accide...

Web services may be able to publish easily their functions to the rest of the web world. At the same time they suffer by several security pitfalls. Currently, there is limited research on how the proposed web-services security countermeasures affect performance and applicability. In this paper, we introduce the threats/attacks vs. web-services authentication, present the most widely used securi...

Web services security constitutes the technological and managerial procedures applied to the system to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information that is exchanged by the Web service. This article explores security issues specific to Web services and illustrates the engineering and testing practices required to ensure security throughout the Web services development ...

Web services are an important way for enterprises to interoperate. They are also becoming important for user access to services that depend on location and they are appearing in mobile devices. We consider the security standards needed for the use of web services in wireless networks. Web services security standards are used for the secure design of the communications between a web service and ...