Securing Web Services with WS-Security : Demystifying WS-Security, WS-Policy, SAML, XML Signature, and XML Encryption

Securing Web Services with WS-Security : Demystifying WS-Security, WS-Policy, SAML, XML Signature, and XML Encryption, 9780672326516 (0672326515), Sams Publishing, 2004

The most up to date, comprehensive, and practical guide to Web services security, and the first to cover the final release of new standards SAML 1.1 and WS-Security.>

Comprehensive coverage and practical examples of the industry standards XML Signature and XML Encryption, and the first book to cover the final WS-Security and SAML 1.1 specifications.
Authors Jothy Rosenberg and David Remy are security experts who co-founded GeoTrust, the #2 Web site certificate authority and currently work for Service Integrity and BEA Systems, respectively.
According to IBM, American Express, Sun Microsystems, and other industry leaders, well-defined security standards and procedures are a crucial element to the adoption of web services in industry.

Securing Web Services with WS-Security is written with the needs of Web service architects, developers, operators, and security administrators in mind. We believe it is equally accessible and important for IT managers, development managers, CIOs, CTOs, Directors of IT, Directors of Operations, security architects, and business analysts. If this list includes you, you are the person within your organization entrusted with understanding, building, deploying, and operating secure Web services. This task is daunting, but we will try to arm you with what you need to know about securing those Web services to protect your company and those assets that Web services are supposed to liberate and leverage. Our goal is to enable you to build and deploy secure Web services so that you and your organization can then begin to leverage the incredible business potential you can derive from Web services; but only if they can be trusted.

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