Enforcing security in .Net based web services

Web services play a vital role in the design of enterprise application in distributed architecture. The dominant industry players offering standards and tools for the design of Web services are J2EE and .Net. J2EE allows the designer to create custom designed Web services and it allows in built support for security. JVM protects the system. CLR lacks in protection. In this paper, we have presented a simple method to enforce security in .Net based Web services in Windows platform. This paper discusses how to log exceptions in the event log and preventing unauthorized access.