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Article Excerpt
Who doesn't love the service-oriented architecture (SOA)? You get efficiency in your application development, revolutionary ability to interoperate with partners and suppliers, and mastery over change management that was never before possible.
With the technologies available today to take advantage of SOAs in enterprise settings, organizations can quickly find themselves faced with many concurrent decisions and implementations. Your staff is exposing legacy applications as Web services in Visual Studio .NET and JBuilder. Partners are clamoring for access to your systems using Web services. Your boss wants to connect the company to key customers using Web services. No problem? Big problem: security.
SOA security is the two-ton elephant stomping through the data center. According to ZapThink, "Security is the immediate roadblock facing widespread implementation of Web services technologies across the enterprise." Security problems have hampered many organizations in advancing SOA ambitions.
The good news is that help is on the way. The complicated truth about SOA security is that it is a manageable, straightforward matter if addressed intelligently at the outset. There are a number of promising SOA and Web services security solutions, particularly in the focused Web services management platforms, coming onto the market today that help tackle security issues. With reasonable planning and understanding of the issues involved, it becomes possible to design and implement a successful, secure SOA.
The Issues
The SOA's inherent security problems stem from the ways in which the SOA replaces traditional security parameters with new, open standards. The efficiency of Web services is in interoperability standards, and with that efficiency comes a proportional increase in risk. Imagine exposing your data in a manner that makes it accessible to anyone who just bought SOAP for Dummies at the local bookstore. The security problem is twofold in that not only are the new standards completely...
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