Chapter 13. Advanced Security
As presented in Chapter 12, “Security,” WS-Security provides the basis for the other security specifications, as shown in Figure 13-1. WS-Security: SOAP Message Security provides a complete, flexible, end-to-end, multiparty model for authentication, message integrity, and confidentiality. The secure messaging protocols rely on security tokens. WS-Trust introduces the concept of a security token server, which is a Web service that issues, renews, and validates security tokens.
Figure 13-1. Web services security architecture.
Chapter 7, “Web Services Policy,” discussed the WS-Policy framework. WS-SecurityPolicy defines ...
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