Privacy Against the Business Partner: Issues for Realizing End-to-End Confidentiality in Web Service Compositions
Meiko Jensen, Nils Gruschka · 2009
For service-oriented business processes, an important security requirement is confidentiality of transmitted data. Here, existing Web Services security standards provide suitable solutions for single invocations, but fail to cover service composition scenarios properly, especially for securing business process data against partners. In this paper, we investigate the issues regarding the realization of process level confidentiality in WS-BPEL-based Web Service compositions.