Web Services Security

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Summary: Points you in the right direction
Review: Writing a book like this is always going to be a difficult task in an up and coming technology. This book handles it exceptionally well. Although being written in 2003 it manages to cover core web service security issues such as WS-Security, SAML and two options of identification softwre such as Liberty Alliance and the Microsoft .NET passport. For once it is refreshing to read a book that is concerned more with security for you and not trying to evangelise something down your neck. It introduces a good range of security issues that approach different aspects of web services security. This was a great start for me to start learning about web services security and the approaches to implementing it. So its a must read for any beginner in the subject.