SOA with .NET and Windows Azure: Realizing Service-Orientation with the Microsoft Platform

Chapter 6. WCF Extensions

6.1 WCF Security

6.2 WCF Transactions

6.3 WCF Router

6.4 WCF Discovery

6.5 WCF Extensibility

6.6 WCF Management Tools

6.1 WCF Security

Services and service consumers are often on opposite sides of trust boundaries.

A trust boundary is a physical or virtual boundary within which actual levels of trust can vary. A trust boundary can be an application process, a machine, or even the Internet itself. When SOAP messages flow through a trust boundary, they may need to be transmitted between nodes, through firewalls, across intermediaries, and so on.

Each of these points of contact can introduce message security threats, ...