POLICY DIRECTED SECURITY-CENTRIC MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE TO SECURE CLIENT AND CLOUD HOSTED WEB SERVICE ENABLED PROCESSES

摘要

A policy directed, security-centric model driven architecture is described to secure internal web services, such as those implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA), and external web services such as those hosted on a cloud computing platform. A distributed data dictionary hosted across multiple dictionary engines and operating in conjunction with web security services are used to embed security profiles in web services messages and to validate messages that contain such security profiles.