IBM / Microsoft / VeriSign, New security specification to advance web services

Manufacturing News, Source : TheManufacturer.com
Published : 15 Apr 2002 15:26
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IBM, Microsoft, and VeriSign have published a new web services security specification to help organisations build secure, broadly interoperable web services applications.

The companies jointly developed the specification, known as WS-Security, and plan to submit it to a standards body.

WS-Security is the foundation for a broader road map and additional set of proposed web services security capabilities outlined by IBM and Microsoft to deal with the increasing need for consistent support of more secure web services.

ARC Vice President Bob Mick commented: "Web services are only useful if all parts necessary for cross platform communications are standardised. Security standards are missing, and this effort is critical for web services to be generally useful on public networks. More than a low-level specification, WS-Security starts with an architecture aimed at accomodating a broad range of security needs.

“IBM and Microsoft have been aggressively making web service capabilities key to their product strategies and are in a good position to influence direction quickly. J2EE-based products have been releasing Web service capabilites over most of 2001, and with the release of Microsoft Visual Studio.NET in Feburary 2002, we see the evolution of Web services on both J2EE and .NET platforms starting to synchronize around efforts like security and other weaknesses."

 

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