Service-Oriented Architecture Security

The objective of the course is to illustrare the basic techniques for confidentiality and integrity of semi-structured and unstructured data.
On this basis, the objective of the course is to explore techniques and standards for authentication, identity management and user profile harvesting in Web services, and to survey and learn the authorization languages for access to network resources and Web services, as well as the methods for the acquisition and representation of assurance metadata, getting to know in depth the techniques and tools for assurance and service safety certification.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to: manage the confidentiality, integrity and digital signature controls at service interfaces; manage the authorization policies and security of Web Services; to deal with the problems related to the assurance and certification of Web Services.