Securing services

Having looked at the additional complications that SOA brings to the security infrastructure, let us examine how SOA Suite enables us to secure our services. We will look at securing services based on what application is calling them as well as securing services based on the end user for whom the request is being made. We will also look at the best places to apply security to our services.

Security outside the SOA Suite

There are several things we can do to secure our services without using the facilities available in the SOA Suite. The following are some of the ways in which we may provide security by configuration of the network and server environment in which our services execute.

Network security

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