Security: A major threat for web services

In recent years, web services have become a new concept over the open, complex internet applications. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a computing paradigm emphasizing dynamic service discovery, composition, and interoperability. Web services is a technology that can be used to implement Service Oriented Architecture. XML based Web services are becoming a more pervasive foundation technology for integrating applications and exchanging data in service oriented architectures. The security issues of Web Services in a distributed environment are a major concern of research. Web Services will never attain their tremendous potential unless we learn how to manage the associated risks. In this paper we present our complete study on the security concerns associated with web services.