WS-Trust

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.

This article by Supun Kamburugamuva explains how to obtain a security token using the WS-Trust implementation for Rampart/C.  A brief introduction to the benefits of WS-Trust is provided, followed by a closer look at the API details of the WS-Trust implementation.