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Secure Web Services
By JavaWorld.com
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Article Date: 2003-03-26
Security is important for any distributed computing environment. But, security is becoming even more important for Web services due to the following reasons:
1. The boundary of interaction between communicating partners is expected to expand from intranets to the Internet. For example, businesses increasingly expect to perform some transactions over the Internet with their trading partners using Web services. Obviously, from a security perspective, Internet communication is much less protected than intranet communication.
2. Communicating partners are more likely to interact with each other without establishing a business or human relationship first. This means that all security requirements such as authentication, access control, nonrepudiation, data integrity, and privacy must be addressed by the underlying security technology.
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