A Study on Secure and Efficient Access Control Framework for SOA

One of the major problems in service oriented architecture is ensuring a secure infrastructure environment. SOA play a major role in providing security standards for the web and hence there is intensification in the need for developing a secure framework. The major objective of this review is to analyze various frameworks for service oriented architectures, to compare and contrast its pros and cons. The paper discusses various security threats and vulnerabilities an SOA can have in today's scenario and also various security services offered by SOA. The paper finally comes with a proposal of secure SOA framework model.