Development of an access control model for web services applying XML-based approach

Abstract

Web Services is a raising model of Web based applications, which allows interconnection, communication, and interoperability among different devices and applications more convenient. Since web services applications run over the open and unreliable internet, security for web services is a necessity and should be applied to provide services providers and service requestors with quality of protection. With the intention to protect resources and information from unlawful access, access control systems are built to provide protection. In spite of the recent advances in Web based access control approaches applicable to Web Services, there remain issues that obstruct the development of effective access control models for Web Services environment. In this project, a secured model for Web Services to provide an effective Access Control model through strong authentication and authorization has been developed. Moreover, in order to demonstrate the proposed model design, the prototype applying a case study is illustrated