RSA Conference 2002: Strengthening Security for Web Services

Enhancing Security for Web Services: Insights from RSA Conference 2002

Feb 20, 2002 •

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Heavyweight security vendors and niche players alike are choosing the RSA Conference 2002 this week to present products designed to provide some of the missing pieces of real-world security environments for Web services.. . . Heavyweight security vendors and niche players alike are choosing the RSA Conference 2002 this week to present products designed to provide some of the missing pieces of real-world security environments for Web services.

Security players VeriSign, Computer Associates, and the Liberty Alliance will introduce plans to bring authentication and ID management to Web services transactions, while a number of upstarts will introduce devices that secure XML-based Web services networks.

"The issue with Web services for the model as currently defined [is that it] has no inherent security built into it," said Jamie Lewis, CEO of The Burton Group in Salt Lake City. "We have to figure out as an industry how to build [security] in. RSA is a great opportunity to build on that."

VeriSign will unveil its long-awaited Web services road map this week. Joining multiple partners, including IBM and Grand Central, Mountain View, Calif.-based VeriSign will announce plans to tie authentication with secure transaction interoperability between apps.

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