Toufic Boubez

Traditional development produces applications that are closed to wide usage. Custom development is required to open these programs to wide-scale integration. In contrast, Web services applications are by default open to other systems and additional configuration is required to block access. The Challenge of Web Services Security A growing share of the Internet marketplace is being turned over to Web services. Studies have shown that by the year 2006 a full 25% of all network traffic will make use of XML-based Web services. As with every new technology, the increased convenience comes with new security considerations. The challenges involved in the deployment of Web services must be overcome efficiently to keep business transactions secure and reliable. The nature of Web s... (more)

Bringing Order to Enterprise Service Proliferation

UDDI has been around for almost three years now. It has gone from an initial proposal by three companies (Ariba, IBM, and Microsoft), to a consortium effort (www.uddi.org) with a community of hundreds, and finally into the hands of the OASIS standards body. Along the way, the original specification has gone through two additional revisions. Perhaps more important, with each new revision ... (more)

Beyond XML Firewalling

Traditional development produces applications that are closed to wide usage. Custom development is required to open these programs to wide-scale integration. In contrast, Web services applications are by default open to other systems and additional configuration is required to block access. The Challenge of Web Services Security A growing share of the Internet marketplace is being turned ov... (more)

Policy-It's More Than Just Security - From just-in-time integration to Web services

Business has long pursued the goal of making IT more of a strategic tool and less of a necessary evil. Organizations are constantly looking for easier, cheaper, and more logical ways to build applications and unite the silos of functionality they still depend on. One approach that has met with some success is the concept of just-in-time integration - a technique to combine new functional... (more)

Web Services Security

In recent years, few technological concepts have generated as much excitement as XML and Web services. After the initial excitement and onslaught of developers creating "Hello World" applications and (unfortunately) posting them to a multitude of UDDI directories, there was a general eagerness to apply this skill to real business problems (and we're not talking about online Celsius-to-Fa... (more)