WS-Security based products and services

WS-Security is a flexible and feature-rich extension to SOAP to apply security to web services. It is a member of the WS-* family of web service specifications and was published by OASIS.{{Citation |last=Alrodhan |first=Waleed |title=Identity Management |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-498-7.ch017 |work=Digital Identity and Access Management |date=2012 |pages=329–347 |access-date=2023-12-11 |publisher=IGI Global|doi=10.4018/978-1-61350-498-7.ch017 |isbn=978-1-61350-498-7 }} Closely related to WS-Security is WS-Trust, also a WS-* specification and OASIS standard that provides extensions to WS-Security.