Experimental analysis of attacks against web services and countermeasures
Abdallah Ghourabi, Tarek Abbes, Adel Bouhoula · 2010
Web services are increasingly becoming an integral part of next-generation web applications. A Web service is defined as a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network based on a set of XML standards. This new architecture and set of protocols brings new security challenges such as confidentiality, integrity, anonymity, authentication, authorization and availability of requested services. Vulnerabilities in Web services are very dangerous since they can be used by attackers to damage the company's information system and steal confidential data.