From confidentiality, integrity, and availability to authentication, authorization, and audit, find out how you can employ best practices to make Web services secure. Eighteen months ago "Web services ...

Simple text messages, readable and writable by people and computers, live at the core of every successful Internet application. XML seeks to grow the expressive power of these texts while preserving ...

Such interoperability could unleash amazing new automation and efficiencies in information systems, spawning a powerful new service-driven computer industry. For example, software might be written ...

COMMENTARY--The rise of internetworking was fueled by the use of network-level security technologies such as SSL, IPSec and firewall filtering to create a secure perimeter around an enterprise network ...

The Web and XML have changed our perspective about what data can do. Instead of regarding data as something to be stored in a database and shuttled across existing networks by systems locked in a ...

DataPower joins a handful of companies building dedicated hardware to overcome the overhead from processing and securing XML-based applications. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

Insurance companies calculate that Web services are a worthwhile risk for solving their systems integration woes. After 24 years of IT work in the insurance industry, Rick Laabs can clearly hear the ...