The World Wide Web originally provided no security services because it was not designed to support sensitive applications. As the Web evolved to become a platform for all types of Internet applications security mechanisms were added. Many Internet players, especially in the e-commerce sector, claim that the Web now can provide adequate security protection. In this paper we analyses some aspects...

Web Services technologies have introduced a new challenge for security protocols. Traditional security protocols cannot handle intermediaries and the flexibility of Web Services bindings. Thus, several proposals for introducing security in Web Services have been presented. One of these is Web Services Security. In this paper we illustrate how this protocol works, with an example, and analyse wh...

The web is riddled with flaws that make it unsafe. Protection methods exist, but current web security solutions are often designed to be deployed by programmers and security experts. Unfortunately, programmers and web security experts are not always available: many sites are created by graphic designers with more artistic backgrounds, and others involve web applications installed by non-program...

Mobile data services in combination with profluent web services are seemingly the path breaking domain in current information research. Effectively, these mobile web services will pave the way for exciting performance and security challenges, the core needto-be-addressed issues. On security front, though a lot of standardized security specifications and implementations exist for web services in...

Service-oriented architecture defines a paradigm for building applications by assembling autonomous components such as web services to create web service compositions. Web services are executed in complex contexts where unforeseen events may compromise the security of the web services composition. If such compositions perform critical functions, prompt action may be required as new security thr...