Typical enterprises include task-specific security devices in heterogeneous environments that cannot easily communicate or coordinate mitigation strategies. Several proprietary approaches exist to ...

If you use a firewall as part of your network security strategy, you might be feeling smug, thinking that you’ve closed access to thousands of ports and vulnerabilities. What you may not realize is ...

As companies embark on efforts to build loosely coupled service-oriented architectures they inevitably have to tackle the issue of securing their SOA service infrastructure, and many turn to XML ...

Application firewall maker Teros Inc. said today that it is adding features to its Secure Application Gateway product line that will protect Web services. Teros is adding the XML security features to ...

Microsoft’s Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) has garnered a lot of attention, especially since it was submitted to the W3C as a possible standard for XML-based communication among object-oriented ...

One of the inconveniences of using the Internet for conducting government business is remembering all of the user names and passwords needed to visit different, but related, Web sites. This repeated ...

To make it easier to measure the security of an information technology product or system, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA ...

SOA Software on Wednesday announced Version 4.3 of its XML VPN product adding several new packaged security features. “As companies move away from expensive proprietary integration mechanisms toward ...

The tools--the XML VPN Controller and XML VPN Appliance--comprise the Santa Monica, Calif.-based vendor's foray into XML-based VPNs, enabling solution providers to offer customers Web services ...