Chapter 21. Defining Security and Management Policies

In this chapter, we will investigate how service-oriented computing makes security and monitoring more complicated before exploring how to secure our service infrastructure and monitor it.

Security and management challenges in the SOA environment

Moving to service-oriented architecture brings with it a number of benefits that we have explored throughout this book, such as improved reuse, strong encapsulation of business services, and the ability to rapidly construct new composite services and applications. However, there is one area in which SOA makes life much harder, and that is in the area of security and management. By security, we mean the process of ensuring that individuals and applications ...

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