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Securing Web Services:

Practical Usage of Standards and Specifications

A book edited by Dr. Periorellis Panos and published by Idea Group Inc.

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

Introduction

Web services are a business driven technology, as they have arisen out of a need for services on demand and just-in-time integration, to enable the rapid exploitation of market opportunities. The Web Service ideology of late binding seems to present the ideal solution, as it enables loosely coupled organizational services to collaborate without any prior transactional history. Integration is abstracted to a new level; that of XML and dependability mechanisms that stem from such specifications, are targeted at this particular level of abstraction. This abstracted approach to integration does have drawbacks however, rooted in the trust and security issues that arise from carrying out business in such a manner.

To address these issues various standards have been developed and proposed by a number of organizations. The process has resulted in over 30 specifications for managing, securing and monitoring web services. Despite such a large number of standards and proposed specifications, there appears to be no clear consensus regarding the overall architectural framework for managing, monitoring and protecting a system’s life cycle, based on web service and related technologies. The book will address issues such as overlaps between standards, their scope, drawbacks and also more importantly how well they work together. The book does not simply aim to provide detailed descriptions of current standards and web service technologies but to show how they can be practically used as part of a larger architecture. 

Purpose of the book

The main aims of this book are to assess the suitability of WS standards and specifications to work together for the purpose of delivering reliable solutions. In particular the book aims to:

·         Report on the extent of usage of WS standards and specifications from developers that work in the area of web services

·         elaborate on the practical usage WS standards,

·         discuss how well they work together,

·         identify potential specification overlaps,

·         and, hopefully, move towards a stack of WS-standards that could form an architectural framework.

By bringing together a set of chapters from people that work in the area of Web Services, we believe it will help us towards the above goals.  Additionally, developer will be assisted in this area of web service technologies to make better and more informed decisions regarding the right technology, as well as the implications it carries. Both developers and managers will benefit from other people’s experiences in using web service technologies.

Topics

A non-exhaustive list of possible themes might include the following areas

·         Web-services architectures based on current WS-* standards and WS-* Specifications

·         Practical experiences using SAML, XACML, WS-Policy, WS-Trust, Ws-security, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Federation, Ws-Authorisation

·         Use of standards in a production environment

  • WS-* standards Composition and Issues related to their usage and their dependencies
  • Web Service Security Mechanisms for Authentication and Authorisation, Non-Repudiation
  • Platforms and related Technologies
  • Message level Integrity and Reliability
  • Web services challenges on trust, security, performance, scalability
  • SOAP Message Management 
  • Web Service Discovery, monitoring and management
  • Web Services and the GRID
  • GRID Security
  • Experience reports and case studies are strongly encouraged

Submission Procedure

Authors are invited to submit a maximum 3-page proposal by 1st of March, 2006. Authors will be notified by 31st of March regarding the suitability of their proposals.
Authors of accepted proposals are invited to submit the completed chapter by the 20th of July via e-mail to the editor.  Allowed formats are Microsoft Word or RTF. LaTeX is not allowed. 

References must be in APA style . The minimum word count per chapter is 5,000 words. Each chapter will be double-blind reviewed. Authors will receive the reviewer’s comments on or before 30th of September. Requested modifications should be made before 30th of October 2006 and authors will be informed about acceptance status on the 15th of November 2006. The camera ready copy deadline is the15th of December. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc., publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints, in 2007.

Contact Information

Dr. Panos Periorellis

E-mail: Panayiotis.Periorellis@newcastle.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 191 246 4918
Fax:     +44 (0) 191 246 4905
School of Computing Science

University of Newcastle, Claremont Rd.

Devonshire Building

NE1 3RU, Newcastle upon Tyne

United Kingdom
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