Web Services Security Roadmap

A comprehensive security framework is necessary that addresses today's Web service needs and is also sufficiently flexible to support the requirements of future applications. Figure 8-8 depicts a Web services security roadmap that, once fully specified, will provide such a framework. This roadmap is based on a document entitled “Security in a Web Services World: A Proposed Architecture and Roadmap” that was jointly submitted by IBM and Microsoft.

Figure 8-8. Web services security roadmap.

A summary of each specification in Figure 8-8 follows. All of these are forward-looking specifications, with the exception of WS-Security, ...

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