Date:October 17, 2007

Time: 12:00 pm US Eastern

Featured Speakers:
Andrew Brown, Director of Security Product Strategy, AmberPoint
Anne Thomas Manes, Vice President and Research Director, Burton Group

Architecturally, SOA poses several unique challenges for application security. As companies move toward the SOA ideal of open, self-describing, and loosely-coupled applications, they also must expose critical data across corporate boundaries and eventually to partners, customers, and, potentially, criminals. Enterprises must also contend with a restrictive regulatory environment that increases requirements for secure, auditable accounting throughout the system. For these reasons, security can be seen as the primary limiting factor in the expansion of SOA.