Locking down Web services: if Web services are the future of distributed computing, you need to meet their considerable security challenges head-on--and sooner rather than later. (Enterprise Security).

Enterprise Systems Journal, November, 2001 by Bragg, Roberta

As you've probably gathered from the plethora of hype and hope freely available from the vendor of your choice, Web services are the next distributed computing paradigm. [See our October cover stories at www.esj.com/webservices for in-depth and ongoing coverage of Web services.--Ed.] While paradigms come and go, most of us survive--and not because we eagerly embrace every new technological whim. Rather, we've learned to selectively accumulate expertise in new technologies and champion their use where appropriate.

But I like to do more than that--and I'm going to challenge you to do the same. Ask yourself this question: What will be the security challenges of the new Web services model? I'm not talking about the proposed standards and fledgling products at the...

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