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Web Services Cheat Sheet
From OWASP
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Transport Confidentiality
- 1.2 Transport Authentication
- 1.3 Transport Encoding
- 1.4 Message Authentication
- 1.5 Message Integrity
- 1.6 Message Confidentiality
- 1.7 Authorization
- 1.8 Schema Validation
- 1.9 Content Validation
- 1.10 Output Encoding
- 1.11 Virus Protection
- 1.12 Message Size
- 1.13 Message Throughput
- 1.14 Identity, key, cert, provisioning
- 1.15 Endpoint Security Profile
- 1.16 Audit Logging
- 1.17 Software Engineering Assurance
- 1.18 XML Denial of Service Protection
- 1.19 Testing
Introduction
This article is focused on providing guidance to securing web services and preventing web services related attacks.
Transport Confidentiality
All communication between web services and their clients must be encrypted using