Jonathan Rosenberg

Concerns about security are cited as the single largest barrier to rapid Web services adoption. Yet most Web services today are fairly straightforward point-to-point integrations that can be securely implemented using only digital certificates and the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. Regardless of security strategy, enterprises are well advised to monitor their Web services to ensure security has not been compromised. Taken together, widely available standard security technologies and active monitoring provide a sensible approach to the majority of today's Web service security challenges. This article describes how to use these technologies to secure the most common deployments of Web services quickly and easily. I'll close with a brief introduction of WS-Security and how this emerging standard relates to what you do and do not get with SSL. Web Services Securit... (more)

Aligning IT with Business

SOA Is Now a Business Imperative Integration remains the number one IT priority; fully 60-70% of IT budgets are dedicated to it. Web services makes integrations simpler and cheaper. It makes B2B integrations practical. What businesses demand from a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is dynamic integration capability. They want rapid response to change, to competitors, to new business opportunities. SOA built with Web services allows IT to build reusable business functions. Truly reusable business functions create efficiency, modularity, and easier integration. The functionality t... (more)

Autonomic SOA Web Services - Achieving Fully "Business-Conscious" IT Systems

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) and autonomic computing are among the hottest topics in IT today. SOA simplifies integration and facilitates the componentization of enterprise-wide systems, thereby enabling optimal business agility. Autonomic computing allows these systems to operate without human intervention - through self-configuring, self-healing, and self-managing capabilities. By combining autonomic computing with SOA, enterprises can now achieve a new IT utopia, named "Autonomic SOA." However, this new level of autonomic computing goes beyond just reacting to tradit... (more)

The Critical Need for Monitoring & Analysis

The Web services paradigm is poised to become the dominant form of distributed computing this decade and beyond. Indeed, A. T. Kearney, an EDS global consultancy, found that 75% of companies ranging from less than $50 million to more than $1 billion in revenues and across 20 vertical industries have already deployed one or more Web service. The Benefits of Web Services Enterprise integration is consistently one of the top three priorities of IT organizations and accounts for $50B in spending annually. Web services are becoming the technology of choice for solving pressing point-to... (more)

WS Security Track - Securing Web Services with WS-Security

An up-to-date, comprehensive, and practical discussion of Web services security, and the first to cover the final release of new standards SAML 1.1 and WS-Security. Comprehensive coverage and practical examples of the industry standards XML Signature and XML Encryption will be presented as well as the first book to cover the final WS-Security and SAML 1.1 specifications. Aligning IT with Business Pragmatic Web Services Security Today The Critical Need for Monitoring & Analysis An up-to-date, comprehensive, and practical discussion of Web services security, and the first to cover t... (more)