If you use a firewall as part of your network security strategy, you might be feeling smug, thinking that you’ve closed access to thousands of ports and vulnerabilities. What you may not realize is ...

As companies embark on efforts to build loosely coupled service-oriented architectures they inevitably have to tackle the issue of securing their SOA service infrastructure, and many turn to XML ...

Microsoft’s Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) has garnered a lot of attention, especially since it was submitted to the W3C as a possible standard for XML-based communication among object-oriented ...

Application firewall maker Teros Inc. said today that it is adding features to its Secure Application Gateway product line that will protect Web services. Teros is adding the XML security features to ...

One of the inconveniences of using the Internet for conducting government business is remembering all of the user names and passwords needed to visit different, but related, Web sites. This repeated ...

A group of application security vendors affiliated with the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) will next week announce a proposal for an XML standard for ...

SOA Software on Wednesday announced Version 4.3 of its XML VPN product adding several new packaged security features. “As companies move away from expensive proprietary integration mechanisms toward ...

The tools--the XML VPN Controller and XML VPN Appliance--comprise the Santa Monica, Calif.-based vendor's foray into XML-based VPNs, enabling solution providers to offer customers Web services ...

The security world held our collective breaths early this week for the big OpenSSL vulnerability announcement. Turns out it’s two separate issues, both related to punycode handling, and they’ve been ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

To make it easier to measure the security of an information technology product or system, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA ...

A company exec was quick to note, however, that the new applications will also support the traditional binary .doc, .xl, and .ppt formats, but unless users designate otherwise, their work will save to ...