Mark O'Neill is CTO at Vordel, the XML network management company. He is also author of the book "Web Services Security" and contributing author to "Hardening Network Security" from McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media. Mark is responsible for overseeing Vordel's product development roadmap and also advises Global 2000 firms and governments worldwide on their tactical and strategic adoption of XML, Web Services and SOA technologies. He holds a degree in mathematics and psychology from Trinity College and graduate qualifications in neural network programming from Oxford University.
How can security policies be centralized across an enterprise's set of Web applications? In particular, we examine the case of security policies for web services and for traditional websites and describe how the two can be administered and enforced together to improve both the cost of ...
Virtualization is a buzzword that is living up to its hype as it takes hold in IT. It has spawned magazine covers, conferences, and analyst reports, and all with good reason. Virtualization allows applications to be deployed in a highly efficient manner. By taking the physical servers ...
It's well known that Web services need security. It's also a truism that lack of security is the barrier to the adoption of Web services. Let's dig a little deeper: What is it about Web services that provoke the security concerns? What is being done to answer the challenge? By answerin...
Last month we focused on the need for compression when XML is transmitted over a wireless network (XML-J, Vol. 3, issue 3). We also looked at the use of XSLT to tailor a single XML document for display on multiple wireless devices, each of which might have different display capabilitie...
The actual definition of a Web service is a matter of some debate because the world of Web services can extend from small closed networks to global discovery services implemented using UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration). But at a practical implementation level it ...
Wireless transmission is becoming more and more common for many document types, and XML is no exception. But XML itself presents a number of challenges to the wireless medium. This article, the first in a two-part series, describes these challenges, and describes techniques that can be...
As XML becomes the de facto format for businesses to communicate over the Internet, the need for security comes to the fore. Digital security has always been about the compromise between convenience and peace of mind. This holds true for XML also.
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Mark O'Neill is CTO at Vordel, the XML network management company. He is also author of the book "Web Services Security" and contributing author to "Hardening Network Security" from McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media. Mark is responsible for overseeing Vordel's product development roadmap and also advises Global 2000 firms and governments worldwide on their tactical and strategic adoption of XML, Web Services and SOA technologies. He holds a degree in mathematics and psychology from Trinity College and graduate qualifications in neural network programming from Oxford University. 
How can security policies be centralized across an enterprise's set of Web applications? In particular, we examine the case of security policies for web services and for traditional websites and describe how the two can be administered and enforced together to improve both the cost of ...
