About this Book

This book is about SOA security. The focus of the book is neither SOA nor security. Instead, it focuses on the intersection between security and SOA implementations.

SOA, or Service-Oriented Architecture, is a new and popular paradigm of IT. SOA uses services as building blocks to organize and architect the applications in an enterprise. There are several different ways these services can be built, put together, and offered.

Security is a well-understood concept, at least in the context of applications. You secure an application against various threats: network eavesdroppers, users (both internal and external), and other programs. There are various techniques, libraries, packages, and best practices you use to achieve this ...

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