Jim Ducharme is director of development at Netegrity, Inc., a leader in securely managing e-businesses. He is responsible for the development of new product initiatives aimed at securing Web Services and XML-based B2B infrastructures. Jim ha presented at numerous industry conferences and has published numerous white papers and technical articles, as well as contributed to two books on distributed computing.
When you hear the word security, what comes to mind? SSL? Firewalls?
Authentication? Authorization? B-52 bombers? Security means different things
to different people, but in the context of securing applications, we can
think of security in two parts: access control and secure communication.
Existing Measures
Access control encompasses a number of concepts, including identity
management, authentication, authorization, and auditing. It includes knowing
who your users are, knowing what they can do in your applications, and
keeping a record of what they have done. There are a variety of products on
the market today that provide cost-effective and manageable solutions for
securing Web-based applications. Access control products work by integrating
with a directory of user identities, typically stored in an LDAP directory or
a relational database, and use the user identity... (more)
Jim Ducharme is director of development at Netegrity, Inc., a leader in securely managing e-businesses. He is responsible for the development of new product initiatives aimed at securing Web Services and XML-based B2B infrastructures. Jim ha presented at numerous industry conferences and has published numerous white papers and technical articles, as well as contributed to two books on distributed computing.
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