Web services enterprise security architecture: a case study

  • Authors:
  • Carlos Gutiérrez;Eduardo Fernández-Medina;Mario Piattini

  • Affiliations:
  • STL Xaudaró, Madrid. (SPAIN);Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real. (SPAIN);Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real. (SPAIN)

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Secure web services
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Web Services (WS hereafter) Security is a crucial aspect for technologies based on this paradigm to be completely adopted by the industry. As a consequence, a lot of initiativesof initiatives have arisen during the last years setting as their main purpose the standardization of the security factors related to this paradigm. In fact, over the past years, the most important consortiums ofof Internet Internet, like IETF, W3C or OASIS, are producing a huge number of WS-based security standards. Despite of this growing, there's not exist yet a process that guides developers in the critical task of integrating security within all the stages of the development's life cycle of WS-based software. Such a process should facilitate developers in the activities of web service-specific security requirents specification, web services-based security architecture design and web services security standards selection, integration and deployment. In this article we briefly present the PWSSec (Process for Web Services Security) process that is composed of three stages, WSSecReq (Web Services Security Requirents), WSSecArch (Web Services Security Architecture) and WSSecTech (Web Services Security Technologies) that accomplishes the mentioned activities, respectively. In this article wWe also provide an thorough explanation of the WSSecArch (Web Services Security Stage) stage intended to design the web services-based security architecture. In addition, a real case study where this stage in being applied is also included.