WS-Policy

XACML, shortened for extensible access control markup language, provides a flexible, fine-grained and scalable way of achieving policy-based access control. WSO2 carbon product platform provides a fine-grained access management solution with Policy Based Access Control (PBAC) based on XACML.

This article walks you through a sample scenario on how to build up a solution to control access to a RESTful service with XACML using WSO2 product stack.

Cloud computing has gained tremendous popularity among business owners and service providers in the enterprise software markets. Among the cloud’s numerous advantages and benefits are also considerable challenges, most of which are related to security, data privacy and trust. This article investigates some of the most common security concerns of the cloud today.

When Web services are used at the enterprise level, it's a common requirement to control the access remotely to these services. Isuru Suriarachchi, Senior Software Engineer at WSO2, explains how you can do that using WSO2 Throttle module. Isuru also explores the throttling configuration and the high level architecture of WSO2 Throttle module.