Security management of Web services

The Internet, while being increasingly used to provide services efficiently, poses a unique set of security issues due to its openness and ubiquity. We highlight the importance of security in Web services and describe how data mining techniques can offer help. The anatomy of two specific security attacks which could cripple Web services or compromise confidential information are described. We survey some security intrusion detection techniques based on data mining and point out their shortcomings. Then we provide some novel data mining techniques to detect such attacks, and describe some safeguard against these attacks.