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Article: REACTIVITY XML FIREWALL PROTECTS AGAINST DOS/XML ATTACKS.
- Article from:
- Computer Security Update
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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Commenting on Web services security vulnerabilities newly discovered by IBM and Microsoft, Reactivity, a leader in delivering instant and sustainable XML Web services security solutions, has recommended SOAP message validation and content filtering like that afforded by its flagship Reactivity XML Firewall(TM) as the best way to prevent XML denial of service (DOS) and other XML attacks. With IT security personnel contending with new vulnerabilities created by Web services data, protocols and frameworks, organizations need a firewall that works at the application layer and can examine all SOAP messages to determine whether they are good or not.
Web services are ...