eb services is the latest wave in distributed computing. Its ability to connect clients and servers independent of platform, programming language, and transport protocol gives it great promise. The potential
he indisputable appeal of Web services will drive most organizations to evaluate development platforms such as .NET. However, security concerns have always made organizations reluctant to embrace new technologies. Fortunately,
The music industry is terrified of the Internet, which it perceives as a loosely controlled world where consumers freely distribute the content in which they have invested millions. The success
ow would you create an application that enables a user to retrieve sensitive data from a database and secure it, preventing other users from tampering with it? The application would
he indisputable appeal of Web services will drive most organizations to evaluate development platforms such as .NET. However, security concerns have always made organizations reluctant to embrace new technologies. Fortunately,
roviding a service on the Web entails a wealth of concerns, from system design, network architecture, and application development, to maintenance and security. This last aspect is often overlooked and
hen deploying a web server and web applications, you must defend against malicious attackers who can identify and exploit the vulnerabilities in these servers and apps. The nimda worm and
The key to surviving an IT-disabling disaster is a business continuity strategy, a set of policies and procedures for reacting to and recovering from such an event, and the main
Don DeMarco, IBM Director s companies become more and more dependent on information, the business-continuity tolerance for information loss becomes less and less, particularly in e-business, says Don DeMarco, Director,