WS Security

Web Services Security (WS-Security) is an effort by Microsoft and IBM to help Web service developers secure SOAP messages by associating security tokens with the messages. Associating security tokens with SOAP messages provides message integrity, confidentiality, and authentication functionality in their transmission. The WS-Security architecture is designed with flexibility in mind enabling the application developer to associate any kind of security token with messages.

A Web Services Enhancements (WSE) download is available to help Web service developers take advantage of the latest WS-Security and other enhancements to Web services. The WSE download can be found at www.microsoft.com/downloads . Because WSE implements Web service standards that are still evolving, it might be inappropriate to use this download for projects that have a low tolerance for change.