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 ...

COMMENTARY--No one is quite sure how quickly Web services are taking off, but three things are very clear. Firstly, security is the biggest obstacle to people adopting Web services. Secondly, they are ...

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

As Web services-based transactions grow, so does the need to secure those communications. That’s the idea behind an emerging standard know as Web Service Security (WS-Security). WS-Security allows Web ...

The specification that will serve as the foundation for building security into Web services was officially ratified as a standard last week, paving the way for widespread corporate adoption. The full ...

Web services security and compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards are top-of-mind customer concerns that the latest version of Watchfire's AppScan Web application ...