Who This Book Is For

Securing Web Services with WS-Security is written with the needs of Web service architects, developers, operators, and security administrators in mind. We believe it is equally accessible and important for IT managers, development managers, CIOs, CTOs, Directors of IT, Directors of Operations, security architects , and business analysts. If this list includes you, you are the person within your organization entrusted with understanding, building, deploying, and operating secure Web services. This task is daunting, but we will try to arm you with what you need to know about securing those Web services to protect your company and those assets that Web services are supposed to liberate and leverage. Our goal is to enable you to build and deploy secure Web services so that you and your organization can then begin to leverage the incredible business potential you can derive from Web services; but only if they can be trusted.