What is the WS-I Basic Security Profile?

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Apr. 4, 2007

Industry-wide, the WS-I Basic Security Profile is an interoperability policy that addresses transport security, SOAP messaging integrity and many other related security considerations for WS-I's Basic Profile 1.1, Simple SOAP Binding Profile 1.0 and Attachments Profile 1.0.

Overall, the Web Services Interoperability Organization announced the availability of the WS-I Basic Security Profile (BSP) 1.0 as final material for public access.

BSP 1.0 is an essential guide for ensuring secure, interoperable Web services. The WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 builds on the work already completed in WS-I's Basic Profile 1.1.

Michael Bechauf, chairman of WS-I said "for the Web services industry as a whole, publishing the WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 is a major step toward achieving WS-I’s objective of advancing interoperability for secure IT services."

"I congratulate the many WS-I members who have worked to make BSP 1.0 a reality," added Bechauf.

"WS-I is an open industry organization whose members promote Web services interoperability across different platforms, operating systems and programming languages," he said.

Anne Manes, research director and v.p. at the Burton Group said "globally, an interoperability profile offers valuable guidance to product implementers and application developers regarding the interpretation of a Web services specification."

Manes added "a specification typically supports a broad set of requirements and offers a variety of options and approaches, but these options can lead to misinterpretation and result in interoperability challenges. An interoperability profile constrains the options and makes communication a lot easier."

She added "the WS-I Board approved BSP 1.0 after receiving confirmation that IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and SAP all demonstrated interoperability."

Following Board approval, the document was submitted to WS-I's membership, who voted to approve BSP 1.0.

Paul Cotton, Chair of the BSP Working Group said "IT security is an ongoing concern to any organization operating in the Web services environment." He added "the WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 provides a strong foundation for the development of secure, yet interoperable Web services. We in the Working Group are now working on BSP 1.1, which builds upon that strong foundation."

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Source: Web Services.org

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