Fourteen organizations joined together for the first time to demonstrate interoperability of the WS-Security OASIS Standard at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit in Los Angeles today.
WS-Security, developed by the OASIS Web Services Security (WSS) TC, delivers a technical foundation for implementing security functions such as integrity and confidentiality in messages implementing higher-level Web services applications.
This massive corroboration of tech companies including BEA Systems, DataPower, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Reactivity, Panacea Software, RSA Security, Sarvega, Sun Microsystems, Systinet, TIBCO, and VeriSign collaborated on WS-Security OASIS InterOp at the Gartner Summit
Gartner analyst, Ray Wagner, describes WS-Security as “the standard for the majority of Web services…committing to it now will allow enterprises to easily modify the security profile of deployed Web services in the future.”
WS-Security allows a wide range of key security methods such as authentication and access control to be reliably, readily associated with SOAP messages. The OASIS InterOp at the Gartner Summit demonstrated the exchange of messages protected by WS-Security using the X.509 Token Profile.
Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS, agreed. “WS-Security provides a key component for the broader security frameworks that users need. Many of the participants in today’s InterOp are also deeply involved in advancing other OASIS Standards for security,
such as the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML). The synergy between these efforts goes a long way towards meeting the marketplace’s need for a cohesive fit between standards,” said Gannon, who also participated in Gartner’s “Power Panel: A Conversation on Standards” at the event.
“As an OASIS Foundational Sponsor, we were very keen to participate with other leading innovators to demonstrate the value of the WS-Security OASIS Standard as it enforces Sun’s commitment to security, interoperability and open standards – central themes of the
Sun Java Enterprise System,” said Rich Sharples, Group Product Marketing Manager, Application Platform Products, Sun Microsystems.
John Stith is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.
