International Journal of Computer Science Issues

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The web services (WS) technology became the reference architecture during the last few years for the integration of heterogeneous systems. As it is nowadays critical for business to make applications communicate over the internet. WS has take essential position for building and integrating e-business applications and to allow Information system technologies to communicate in an interoperable manner. New WS extra standards have been developed through the cooperation of several standardization organizations. This technology has also some limits specially security issues. We will try throughout this paper to provide an overview and an analysis of the standards in the field of web services security as well as to analyze the issues that are not yet addressed. Treating Web Services security means treating aspects like authentication, authorization, integrity and confidentiality and how they can be guaranteed in WS architecture. Also an overview related standards called WS-Security, including how they combine to address security pains especially in a business to business Web Services scenario.