Web Services Security concepts

The Web Services Security specification defines core facilities for protecting the integrity and confidentiality of a message, and provides mechanisms for associating security-related claims with a message.

Subtopics

• Web Services Security concepts
  
• Overview of standards and programming models for web services message-level security
  
• SAML concepts
  
• Generic security token login modules
  
• Generic security token login module for the token generator
  
• Generic security token login module for the token consumer
  
• Web Services Security concepts for v5.x applications