Marc Chanliau

One of the challenges IT organizations face is how to propagate identities in complex business processes that are commonly found in Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs). Identities, which are passed from one service invocation to the next in a business process, give the process ... (more)

Last month (WSJ, Vol. 4, issue 2), we looked at how Web services should not depend on specific security environments and rules but should be managed as part of all of an enterprise's corporate data assets such as Web applications, ERP systems, and in-house applications. We recom... (more)

Web services are past the initial marketing hype. Early Web services were part of experimental one-off projects within a single enterprise department. Now, larger Web services deployments are moving outside of the enterprise firewall to better leverage existing business partnersh... (more)

This article focuses on the value of Web services security. It is important to understand what Web services are and their challenges, particularly related to security. Traditionally, companies have relied on conventional, transport-level security but this approach has its limitat... (more)