Secure Semantic Service-Oriented Systems

As the demand for data and information management continues to grow, so does the need to maintain and improve the security of databases, applications, and information systems. In order to effectively protect this data against evolving threats, an up-to-date understanding of the mechanisms for securing semantic Web technologies is essential.

Reviewing cutting-edge developments, Secure Semantic Service-Oriented Systems focuses on confidentiality, privacy, trust, and integrity management for Web services. It demonstrates the breadth and depth of applications of these technologies in multiple domains. The author lays the groundwork with discussions of concepts in trustworthy information systems and security for service-oriented architecture. Next, she covers secure Web services and applications—discussing how these technologies are used in secure interoperability, national defense, and medical applications.

Divided into five parts, the book describes the various aspects of secure service oriented information systems; including confidentiality, trust management, integrity, and data quality. It evaluates knowledge management and e-business concepts in services technologies, information management, semantic Web security, and service-oriented computing. You will also learn how it applies to Web services, service-oriented analysis and design, and specialized and semantic Web services.

The author covers security and design methods for service-oriented analysis, access control models for Web Services, identity management, access control and delegation, and confidentiality. She concludes by examining privacy, trust, and integrity, the relationship between secure semantic Web technologies and services, secure ontologies, and RDF. The book also provides specific consideration to activity management such as e-business, collaboration, healthcare, and finance.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Service-Oriented Computing
Chapter 3. SOA and Web Services
Chapter 4. Service-Oriented Analysis and Design
Chapter 5. Specialized Web Services
Chapter 6. Semantic Web Services
Chapter 7. Trustworthy Systems
Chapter 8. Secure Service-Oriented Computing
Chapter 9. Secure SOA and Web Services
Chapter 10. Secure Service-Oriented Analysis and Design
Chapter 11. Access Control for Web Services
Chapter 12. Digital Identity Management
Chapter 13. Security Models for Web Services
Chapter 14. Trust Management and Web Services
Chapter 15. Privacy and Web Services
Chapter 16. Integrity Management, Data Provenance, and Web Services
Chapter 17. Secure Semantic Web and Web Services
Chapter 18. Security, XML, and Web Services
Chapter 19. Security, RDF, and Web Services
Chapter 20. Security, Ontologies, and Web Services
Chapter 21. Security, Rules, and Web Services
Chapter 22. Web Services for Secure Data, Information, and Knowledge Management
Chapter 23. Secure Geospatial, Multimedia, and Sensor Web Services
Chapter 24. Web Services for Secure Activity Management
Chapter 25. Secure Specialized Web Services
Chapter 26. Summary and Directions

Appendix A: Data Management Systems: Developments and Trends
Appendix B: Database Management
Appendix C: Secure Objects
Appendix D: Developments with Standards, Products, and Tools