This chapter discusses various practices and techniques to design and build secure Web services.
To get the most from this chapter:
Read Chapter 19, "Securing Your ASP.NET Application and Web Services." It is geared toward an administrator so that an administrator can configure an ASP.NET Web Application or Web service, bringing a semi-secure application to a secure state.
Read Chapter 17, "Securing Your Application Server." Read Chapter 17 to familiarize yourself with remote application server considerations.
Use the "Checklist: Securing Web Services" in the "Checklists" section of this guide. The checklist is a summary of the security measures required to build and configure secure Web services.
Use this chapter to understand message level threats and how to counter those threats.
Use the application categories as a means to tackle common problems . The sections give you relevant information using these categories.