Service Oriented Architectures and Web services (SOA/WS) are emerging as the next major wave of application architectures for IT intensive enterprises. Organizations are looking to SOA/WS to improve the speed, flexibility, and cost of building and deploying applications for both internal and external uses. However, as with all new IT architectures, in particular those that are highly distributed, security management can be a significant challenge. Without a proper architecture application security is often created in silos which lead to increased risk of information leakage, cost of security administration and regulatory compliance.

Read this product brief to learn about CA SOA Security Manager, an identity-centric web services security software product that secures access to services by inspecting the security information contained in xml requests.