SOA Security

Ramarao Kanneganti, Prasad Chodavarapu

• Publisher: Manning
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9781932394689
• eBook ISBN: 9781638354888
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Cyber Security
• Index: Computer Science

SOA is one of the latest technologies enterprises are using to tame their software costs - in development, deployment, and management. SOA makes integration easy, helping enterprises not only better utilize their existing investments in applications and infrastructure, but also open up new business opportunities. However, one of the big stumbling blocks in executing SOA is security. This book addresses Security in SOA with detailed examples illustrating the theory, industry standards and best practices.It is true that security is important in any system. SOA brings in additional security concerns as well rising out of the very openness that makes it attractive. If we apply security principles blindly, we shut ourselves of the benefits of SOA. Therefore, we need to understand which security models and techniques are right for SOA. This book provides such an understanding.Usually, security is seen as an esoteric topic that is better left to experts. While it is true that security requires expert attention, everybody, including software developers, designers, architects, IT administrators and managers need to do tasks that require very good understanding of security topics. Fortunately, traditional security techniques have been around long enough for people to understand and apply them in practice. This, however, is not the case with SOA Security.Anyone seeking to implement SOA Security is today forced to dig through a maze of inter-dependent specifications and API docs that assume a lot of prior experience on the part of readers. Getting started on a project is hence proving to be a huge challenge to practitioners. This book seeks to change that. It provides bottom-up understanding of security techniques appropriate for use in SOA without assuming any prior familiarity with security topics on the part of the reader.Unlike most other books about SOA that merely describe the standards, this book helps you get started immediately by walking you through sample code that illustrates how real life problems can be solved using the techniques and best practices described in standards. Whereas standards discuss all possible variations of each security technique, this book focusses on the 20% of variations that are used 80% of the time. This keeps the material covered in the book simple as well as self-sufficient for all readers except the most advanced. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

Table of contents

• Copyright
• Dedication
• Brief Table of Contents
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About this Book
• Part I. SOA basics
• Chapter 1. SOA requires new approaches to security
• Chapter 2. Getting started with web services
• Chapter 3. Extending SOAP for security
• Part II. Building blocks of SOA security
• Chapter 4. Claiming and verifying identity with passwords
• Chapter 5. Secure authentication with Kerberos
• Chapter 6. Protecting confidentiality of messages using encryption
• Chapter 7. Using digital signatures
• Part III. Enterprise SOA security
• Chapter 8. Implementing security as a service
• Chapter 9. Codifying security policies
• Chapter 10. Designing SOA security for a real-world enterprise
• Appendix A. Limitations of Apache Axis
• Appendix B. WS-SecureConversation
• Appendix C. Attaching and securing binary data in SOAP
• Appendix D. Securing SAML assertions
• Appendix E. Application-Oriented Networking (AON)
• Index
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Listings