Security issues in web services: a review approach with process and applications of multi–part multi-signature document

Abstract

Web Service is a new software technology that enables communication of various systems that are running on different platforms. The security issues of Web Services are a major concern of research due to its distributed environment. Web service security is one of the major areas of research both in industry as well as in academia. This current work is mainly bassed on security issues that are related with Web Services. The study is carried out with the common framework of security issues. Security issues that are special to web Services are discussed considering present available Web Service technologies. Use of Multi-Part Multi-Signature Document (MPMSD) in distributed environment is a current trend. The XML signature security also can be used with this approach. The application of Multi-Part and Multi-Signature Document related to security issues need to be further explored and experimented. Major purpose of this proposed work is to describe the process and applications of MPMSD in the distributed environment and study between XML signature security issues with the MPMSD. Furthermore, this work attempts to identify the future issues for research under MPMSD.