04/08/2005

Fifteen organizations will come together for the first time to demonstrate interoperability of the WS-Security OASIS Standard at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit, on April 20, 2005, in Los Angeles.

WS-Security, developed by the OASIS Web Services Security (WSS) TC, delivers a technical foundation for implementing security functions such as integrity and confidentiality in messages implementing higher-level Web services applications. Gartner analyst Ray Wagner describes WS-Security as "the standard for the majority of Web services... Committing to it now will allow enterprises to easily modify the security profile of deployed Web services in the future."

The OASIS InterOp at the Gartner Summit will demonstrate the exchange of messages protected by WS-Security under real-world conditions. Various capabilities of the OASIS Standard will be explored. Participating companies include BEA Systems, Computer Associates, DataPower, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Reactivity, Panacea, RSA Security, Sarvega, Sun Microsystems, Systinet, TIBCO, and Verisign.

To receive a briefing on the WS-Security OASIS InterOp, contact carol.geyer@oasis-open.org.