Web service layer security (WSLS)
Luigi Lo Iacono, Jun Wang · Network Security · 2008
Web service (WS)-related security standards provide a comprehensive framework to develop and implement security systems for WS environments. These standards are often broad in scope, and the price of this generality is a high level of complexity. This in turn can lead to potential security problems. Web services are a powerful set of technologies that can be used to build service-oriented architectures (SOA). Current security mechanisms are not flexible, efficient and manageable enough for SOA-associated collaboration patterns and business models. This demands adequate security mechanisms respecting the specific requirements of web service-based SOA.