The tech industry is not about to let concerns over security stop its push to adopt Web services. So expect some fast work in the next year but don't expect comprehensive solutions.

Peter Judge: People don't want to wait for Web services - so the security industry is going to have to shift a generation pretty quickly.

In our security-conscious era, Web services have surprisingly escaped scrutiny. That's a strange lapse given how these services are supposed to form the underpinning of our information infrastructure.

WS-Security is the premier Web services standard that handles more complex authentication, confidentiality, and integrity for SOAP messages. It supports passwords, Kerberos, X.509 digital ...

Amid AWS re:Invent, cloud startups discussed Amazon Web Services security and how they're solving issues like misconfiguration and visibility.

The Web Services Interoperability Organization forms a working group to make sure that Web services security products can communicate with each other.

WS-Security [Web Services-Security specification] are not yet mature. … I think there will be less security than would be desirable in a lot of [vendors] solutions.

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced on Tuesday publication of its WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 , serving as a guide for enabling secure, interoperable Web services.

In their rush to implement Web services, some companies may be exposing themselves to new security risks that they may not fully understand, a security researcher said at the CanSecWest/core06 ...