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Patterns for securing architectures

Community
Architecture
Topics
Security,
Design

Security is all about trade-offs you make with your always limited resources, often a problem when designing a system or an after-thought. Only a few have the expertise to design good security and most development teams have no security expert. This talk focuses on Security Patterns for designing security in architectures, such as Role-based Access Control, Single Access Point, and Front Door.

News about Security

Spring (Acegi) Security 2.0 Adds OpenID Support, REST Capabilities, and Performance Improvements

Community
Java
Topics
Web Frameworks,
Security

Spring Security 2.0 has been released after almost two years of development. This new release replaces Acegi Security as the official security module for Spring applications and includes significant enhancements and new features.

Security for Services and Mashups

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Web 2.0,
Enterprise Architecture,
Security

Security has become a rising concern in most applications and systems today. Whether you are building small mashups, enterprise applications, or a platform for SOA, there are several issues and approaches that are being discussed. Erica Naone talked about dealing with security in the world of mashups recently while Bob Rhubart and David Garrison from BEA discussed securing the services you deploy.

OASIS Symposium: Composability within SOA

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Security

OASIS is going to hold a 3 day symposium on the topic of "Composability within SOA" in Santa Clara, CA from April 28th to April 30th. Engineers and Scientists from vendors and end-user companies will discuss topics including mashups, Service-Oriented Ajax, SCA, BPEL, SDO, BPM, Web Service Transactions, Data Security in SOA, SOA Reference Architecture...

Articles about Security

Securing a Grails Application with Acegi Security

Community
Java
Topics
Security

This article discusses the integration of the grails-acegi plugin with a sample Grails application. As part of this integration, there are three major components which will be used – Groovy, Grails and Acegi Security.

Service Firewall Pattern

Community
SOA
Topics
Deployment / Datacenter,
Security

How can you protect a service against detect malicious incoming messages and prevent information disclosure on outgoing messages? In this sample chapter from Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz' in-progress book SOA Patterns, Arnon explains how to use a Service Firewall to intercept incoming and outgoing messages and inspect them in a dedicated software component or hardware.

Interviews about Security

ASP.NET Authentication Practices with Josh Holmes

Community
.NET
Topics
Security

ASP.NET authentication and authorization is essentially a solved problem in ASP.NET 2.0 according to .NET guru Josh Holmes. While the built in authorization providers offer 90% coverage, Josh also discusses when you should utilize a custom provider. Join Josh for ASP.NET tips and tricks in this interview done by David Totzke at VSLive Toronto.

Mohammad Akif - SOA Beyond the Hype and the Security Development Life Cycle

Community
.NET,
SOA
Topics
Security,
.NET Framework

InfoQ sits down Mohammad to discuss the myths of SOA, common pitfalls in designing for SOA, J2EE and .NET interoperability and injecting the Security Development Lifecycle into enterprise development lifecycles.

Presentations about Security

Security Assertion Markup Language - SAML

Community
SOA
Topics
WS Standards,
Security

The SAML has emerged as the gold standard for building Cross-Domain SSO solutions and is a key technology in the domain of federated identity management. The basic concepts of SAML as well as a technical synopsis will be presented. What are SAML assertions, attributes, artifacts, bindings and profiles? What problems does SAML solve, how does it all work out in real life...