SOA Security

by RamaraoKanneganti (Author), PrasadAChodavarapu (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $3.47

  HIGHLIGHT

  A practitioner's guide to implementing and architecting security in enterprises

  that use SOA. Covers WS-Security, XML Encryption, XML Signatures, and

  SAML. It is the only book in the market that is hands-on, at the code level.

  DESCRIPTION

  Anyone seeking to implement SOA Security is forced to dig through a maze of

  inter-dependent specifications and API docs that assume a lot of prior security

  knowledge on the part of readers. Getting started on a project is proving to be a

  huge challenge to practitioners. This book seeks to change that. It provides a

  bottom-up understanding of security techniques appropriate for use in SOA

  without assuming any prior familiarity with security topics.

  Unlike most other books about SOA that merely describe the standards, this

  book helps readers learn through action, by walking them through sample code

  that illustrates how real life problems can be solved using the techniques and best

  practices described in the standards. It simplifies things: where standards usually

  discuss many possible variations of each security technique, this book focuses

  on the 20% of variations that are used 80% of the time. This keeps the material

  covered useful for all readers except the most advanced.

  KEY POINTS

  Why SOA Security is different from ordinary computer security, with

  real life examples from popular domains such as finance, logistics, and

  government

  Uses open source tools and code examples to show how things work.

  This knowledge is then useful for work with proprietary tools.

  Assumes no prior security knowledge

  MARKET INFORMATION

  One of the major obstacles to implementing SOA in enterprises is the difficulty

  in grasping what is different about security in SOA. There is a lot of published

  material out there about SOA security but it does not provide the specifics

  on how to plan, design, and implement enterprise-class SOA security architecture.

  This book addresses that challenge in a hands-on way.