Service-Oriented Management Technology Landscape

Web Services management applications provide software that helps companies manage the systems and applications that underlie their Web Services implementations. The Web Services management products on the market today offer functionality in five basic categories: system management, lifecycle management, business management, security management, and the most important, Service-Oriented Architecture enablement.

The latter category is especially important because many Web Services management products provide the critical infrastructure necessary for companies to take their fine-grained, atomic Web Services and other data sources and encapsulate and compose them into coarse-grained business Services that make up a Service-Oriented Architecture. Such architectures offer far more long-term business value than the point-to-point applications of Web Services common today.

Web Services Security Technologies & Markets

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Web Services Security

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RSA and Entrust target Web services security returns

According to Jason Bloomberg, security analyst at Boston-based Web services research firm ZapThink, the comprehensive “wealth of experience” in PKI, digital certificates, and ID management technology from vendors such as Entrust, RSA, and Baltimore Technologies should prove an immediate boost in the cramped market to secure Web services.

“There are a lot of pieces to a PKI solution — certificates, management, revocation, and tying each of those in with user management. Web services will help that,” said Bloomberg. “Passwords only get you so far. To take that extra step, whether it’s a PKI token or Kerberos ticket, or a token like a smart card, a lot of companies need to make that move for business requirements for [ Web services] security.”

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Verisign, IBM Web Services Security Pact Bears Fruit

“Web Services offer great potential for business-to-business communication and integration,” said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at Web services research firm ZapThink. “But the lack of robust security and management solutions currently inhibit the ability for companies to conduct business with each other via Web Services over the Internet. You can’t just buy a little security. You have to cover all the bases to be secure.”
Zapthink’s Ronald Schmelzer noted that the play was evidence that technology firms are not simply sitting idly by, waiting for standards to be hashed out.

“The MQ Series-Tivoli-Verisign solution is an example of an increasing number of vendors joining up to solve hard security, management, transaction, and reliability problems rather than waiting for the standards to be solidified,” Schmelzer said. “If anything, it helps illustrate why vendors are pushing for solutions much faster than the standards bodies can deliver. This might lead to conflicting standards and solutions in the long-haul, but at least in the short term, Web Services can live up to their promise.”

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“OASIS fuels security agenda”

“OASIS has become a popularity party,” said Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at Boston-based XML and Web services research company ZapThink. “It has less to do with 56 [companies] having something to really contribute than it has to do with 56 [companies] wanting to jump on the bandwagon.”

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Securing & Managing XML & Web Services in the Enterprise

There are two related forces that are transforming information technology today: the rapid growth of XML traffic on the network, and the widespread adoption of Web Services as a way of reducing the cost of integration and moving traditional enterprise architectures to flexible, Service-oriented architectures. Enterprises must plan ahead if they want to be able to manage the XML and Web Services on their networks. Even more importantly, enterprises must take care to provide uninterrupted security for their IT environments. In the face of these changes, XML and Web Services introduce new security concerns for the IT manager, and new technology tools, including XML firewalls, offer the missing pieces of security that today’s enterprises need.

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