Use scenarios Introduction
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Benefits from implementing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Challenges from adopting Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) Security
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Benefits from implementing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Many studies have shown that adopting Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) brings many organizational benefits such as:
Significant cost reduction.
Reduced complexity of your business processes.
Improved interoperability between existing and future applications,including internal and external applications.
Increased software component reuse .
Minimizing the time required to deploy requested changes in business processes.
Improved business visibility for a SOA project manager, by exposing business capabilities that support decision-making as services.
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Challenges from adopting Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
The adoption of service-oriented architectures (SOA) brings to turn several challenges related to security and governance of such as:
1. Exposure of critical and confidential business information like data breach, namely enterprise architecture, business processes and workflows.
2. Organizations must protect themselves against a wide range of attacks, both internal and external, and in turn they must ensure effective control across the exposed service's life-cycle.
3. In a service-oriented architecture (SOA) there may exist a sort of different software applications developed in any languages and running on any platform. Each of these can provide: security, auditing, tracking and service level agreements (SLAs) independently, making the deployment and management of the entire architecture much more complex.
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Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) security:
The security departments are concern about potential security problems generated by the adoption of SOA. XML data streams are going inadvertently through routes and protocols.
Firewalls are completely defenseless against possible attacks on XML, which would directly affect applications, representing a new generation of attacks on the system's security, availability and performance.
Controlling the security of web services published on the Internet is not a simple task. Even most advanced IP firewalls that filter the application layer are not enough, this because accurate HTTP requests pass right through them and this is compounded by the fact that service-oriented architectures can be deployed in heterogeneous and decentralized environments.
ITAC WS-Guardian® solves this problem enabling organizations to harness the indubitable benefits of a SOA service-oriented architecture. It prevent security threats and allows the generation of new business processes without change or re-invent the existing security infrastructure and thus, align the area of security with IT.