Web Services are the interoperable and loosely coupled components for simplifying business processes over the web and are popular model of distributed computing now a days. There are a very few datasets available regarding Quality of Service (QoS) for web services since web services datasets are difficult to create. The reason being that it requires more effort to collect service information fr...

Web service specifications (WS*) have been designed with the aim of being composable to provide a rich set of tools for secure, reliable, and/or transacted web services. Due to the flexibility of SOAP-level security [1] mechanisms, web services may be vulnerable to a distinct class of attacks based on the malicious interception, manipulation, and transmission of SOAP messages, which are referre...

The advent of Web Services and service-oriented architectures is fundamentally changing the way we build our internal systems and how internal and external systems interact with each other. To reduce the costs of software systems while at the same time increasing the capabilities of the systems, more and more companies and organisations are adopting their IT systems to Web Service technologies....

Security certification assesses the security posture of a software system to verify its compliance with diverse, pre-specified security controls identified by guidelines from NIST and the US Department of Defense. Service-oriented architectures (SOA) are difficult to certify because they require compliance verification over a mix of local, global, and interaction criteria dictated by the polici...

Now a days, a new family of web applications 'open applications’, are emerging (e.g., Social Networking, News and Blogging). Generally, these open applications are non-confidential. The security needs of these applications are only client/server authentication and data integrity. For securing these open applications, effectively and efficiently, HTTPI, a new transport protocol is proposed, whic...

Currently, there are a large number of heterogeneous platforms. The standards of Web Services in different platforms are different and complex. Therefore, security interaction of Web services based on heterogeneous platform has become increasingly prominent. In order to realize security interaction of heterogeneous platforms, a security interactive model of Web Service based on WebSphere and .N...

The evaluation of security properties of web services is a keyproblem, especially when business processes are dynamical-ly built by composing atomic services provided by di erentsuppliers at runtime. In this paper we present a Java-basedframework for the security certi cation of BPEL-based com-positions of web services. The framework is grounded on thetest-based service ...

Security is an important aspect of Service-oriented Architectures (SOAs), enabling the service-based integration of partner IT systems across organizational boundaries, i. e., in the Internet of Services. Current trends in SOA security, e. g., reducing it to Web service security, do not take into account SOA-specific threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks. In this paper, measures to support the ...

Semantic Web is maturing day by day and data and information integration is growing and becoming crucial. Security is one of the key features of the future Internet‟s security. So it is necessary harnessing the synergy in biometrics and in Semantic Web. It can leverage the lack of widely accepted biometrics security standards along with Semantic Web technologies to protect, represent, store and...

During the past years significant standardization work in web services technology has been made. As a consequence of these initial efforts, web services foundational stable specifications have already been delivered. Now, it is time for the industry to standardize and address the security issues that have risen from this paradigm. Great activity is being carried out on this subject. This articl...