About Security for Web Services

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An interoperable security technology provides the following features to secure Web services communication:

• Web Service Security Policy—Enables Web services to use security assertions to clearly represent security preferences and requirements for Web service bindings. For details, see Web Service Security Policy.
• Web Services Trust—Enables Web service applications to used SOAP messages to request security tokens that can then be used to establish trusted communications between two Web service endpoints.
• Web Services Secure Converstation—Enables a client and a Web services to establish a secure context for multiple SOAP message exchanges. By using this feature, you ensure that your Web service binding security requirements, as defined in the WSDL, can interoperate with and be consumed by WSIT and WCF endpoints.