XML syntax is simple. Essentially, you must balance the opening and closing tags. Yet I wish I had a proverbial nickel for every e-mail I've received saying, "I'm trying to process the attached XML document through such and such tool and it fails -- could you recommend a better tool?" ...

Today eBusiness plays a key role in the economy. Since many organizations are suffering from security problems such as computer viruses and security breaches, computer security has become a crucial concern for eBusiness. XML has already established itself in eBusiness applications, and the XML-compliant languages play an important role in ...

Many organizations are discovering that traditional network protection and infrastructure systems lack the functionality, performance, and operational efficiencies to provide a cost effective and scalable XML Threat Prevention solution. This presentation describes the unique security challenges that XML Web Services present to traditional ...

Enterprises and governments world wide are discovering that traditional network protection and infrastructure systems lack the functionality, performance, and operational efficiencies to provide a cost effective and scalable XML Threat Protection solution. This paper describes the unique security challenges that XML Web Services present to traditional network protection and infrastructure ...

XML Web services interfaces are XML-based and loosely coupled in practice. XML and SOAP allow any systems to communicate with each other, whether it be an Office XP desktop application or a mainframe system. Over time, as there is pressure to automate business functions, there will be a need to ...

The number-one concern that prevents many enterprises from implementing Web services in a meaningful way is the lack of understanding of what the security risks are. Many IT managers are dabbling in Web services and have plans to implement in the fictitious "3-6 month timeframe" but are afraid to seriously ...

Xml was considered as security threat. A few years ago, that might have seemed a stretch to anyone using the standard as a way to encode and swap data. The emergence of Web services, however, is changing that. According to Gartner, most large firms already have or ...

An XML document may contain zero or more EncryptedData elements. EncryptedData cannot be the parent or child of another EncryptedData element. However, the actual data encrypted can be anything, including EncryptedData and EncryptedKey elements (i.e., super-encryption). During super-encryption of an EncryptedData or EncryptedKey element, one must encrypt the entire element. ...