Ignore standards for web services security
Although there are no products as such, major vendors sell application development packages, such as Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net, which have the facility to build security into web services.
The Gartner report argues that web services security is immature and that complex, multi-party web services will require newer, more versatile security patterns for electronic transactions.
By using XML, Simple Object Access Protocol and Web Services Description Language, WS-Security related specifications are designed to be used together to provide a rich, secure web services environment.
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