This 1-day course will prepare you to identify, define, diagnose, and implement a comprehensive security strategy for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative. SOA opens up a whole realm of security issues due to its ubiquity, decentralization, distributed, and even federated nature. Students will be exposed to a broad range of enterprise SOA security subjects, providing a solid foundational understanding of valid and in-valid approaches to designing and implementing SOA security.

Concepts in this course are re-enforced through a combination of group discussion, live demos and daily reviews.

Course Prerequisites

Familiarity with SOA core concepts and elements required. Also a working knowledge of basic enterprise security principles and terminology highly recommended.

Who Should Attend?

Security architects, analysts, and managers as well as system architects and application developers. 

Course Outline

1. SOA Security Overview

• Objectives
• Traditional systems
• Loosely-coupled systems
• Risks of loosely-coupled services
• SOA Security Concerns
• Security Stack: Web services
• Security Stack: Other services
• Discussion Question
• Summary

2. Security Patterns

• Objectives
• Service bus security
• Service bus security layers
• Application-managed security
• Security as a service
• Reverse Proxy
• ESB Gateway
• Discussion Question
• Summary

3. Security Layering

• Objectives
• SOA Layers
• Security Layering
• Policy-driven Security
• PEP/PDP in Action
• Separation of concerns
• Loosely-coupled security layer
• SES/SDS in Action
• Layering and service granularity
• Security Service Granularity
• Process-centric Security
• Discussion Question
• Summary

4. Applying Traditional Security to SOA

• Objectives
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Digital Signature
• Digital Signature Process
• Certificates
• Authentication
• Basic HTTP Authentication
• Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
• Basic Authentication Over HTTPS
• Securing non-HTTP Traffic
• Summary

5. SOA Security Standards

• Objectives
• WS-Security
• XML Encryption & Signature
• SAML
• WS-Trust
• WS-Trust Interoperability
• WS-Federation
• WS-SecureConversation
• Web Services Policy Framework
• WS-SecurityPolicy
• Security Standards Review
• Summary

6. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

• Objectives
• SOAP Overview
• SOAP in Protocol Stack
• SOAP Components
• SOAP HTTP Request Example
• SOAP HTTP Response Example
• Message Envelope
• The Header Element
• Header Attributes
• SOAP Body
• SOAP Fault
• Communication Style
• RPC/Encoded Style
• RPC/Literal Style
• Enabling RPC Styles
• Document/Literal Style
• Document/Literal Wrapped Style
• Details of the Wrapped Style
• Enabling Document Literal Style
• Summary

7. SOA Security Standards

• Objectives
• SOA Security Model
• SOA Security Policies
• Transport Level Security Policy
• Message Level Security Policy
• Data Level Security Policy
• Overview of Web Services Security
• Securing XML Data
• XML Digital Signatures
• XML Encryption
• WS-Security Tokens
• WS-Security Considerations
• Putting it all together
• Phase 1: The Service-side
• Phase 1: Build a secure service
• Phase 2: The Client
• Phase 2: Build a secure client
• Phase 3: Production
• Audit Tracking
• Identity Assertion Using SAML
• SAML SOAP Example
• Summary

8. SOA Security Threats and Countermeasures

• Objectives
• The Price of Open Standards
• Generic Vulnerabilities
• XML-specific Attacks
• Countermeasures
• Summary

9. Governing SOA Security

• Objectives
• Security Governance
• Collecting Security Requirements
• Policies and Contract Management
• Policy and Contract Management
• SOA Security Lifecycle
• Governance Model Overview
• Models for Governing Security
• Discussion Question
• Summary

Appendix A. Glossary

Appendix B. Introduction to Web Services

• Objectives
• A Conceptual Look at Services
• Defining Services
• SOA Runtime Implementation
• SOA Runtime Implementation
• What is a Web Service?
• Enterprise Assets as Services
• Typical Development Workflow
• Advantages of Web Services
• Web Service Business Models
• Case Study: Internal System Integration
• Case Study: Business Process Externalization
• SOAP Overview
• SOAP in Protocol Stack
• SOAP Structure
• SOAP Message Architecture
• Applying SOAP
• WSDL Overview
• WSDL Structure
• Applying WSDL
• UDDI Overview
• UDDI Terminology
• UDDI Structure
• Locating a Service
• Applying UDDI
• WS-I Overview
• WS-I Deliverables
• Summary