This white paper describes the threat profile of a Web Services environment. It discusses the various techniques that may be used in an attack against the individual components using XML and soap documents. The paper also introduces the top Web services threats, a set of real-world attacks that provide the most likely approach to compromising a service-oriented architecture. It then discusses ways to defend against these threat classes using specialized XML Firewalls.

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