C&IT 581z Programming for the Internet

Course Description and/or Theme

Web services are becoming a fundamental component of a service-based society cutting across critical infrastructures such as finance, transportation, utilities, energy, and telecommunication; manufacturing, service, healthcare, etc. Securing web services and business processes built as web services composition requires to secure a variety of components (from the network to the applications) using different security mechanisms and technologies. At the same time, interoperability of security mechanisms is a fundamental requirement.

This course will address requisites, mechanisms, techniques, issues and security standards for web services security. Topics will be substantiated in the HealthCare application area and include:

• Service Oriented Architecture concepts
• Service Oriented Architecture technological foundations and related standards (SOAP and WSDL)
• Web Service security standardization framework
• Transport layer security and related standards
• Message-level security and reliability, and related standards
• Application-level security, access control models, and related standards
• Security policies and standards
• Security for Business Processes
• Identity Management and related standards
• Security and privacy issue in Healthcare

Fall 2007 Course Materials

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