Unifying private registry and web service access control

Security is a key factor in any distributed computing environment and Web services-based environment is not an exception. The Security challenge includes, among other factors, registry and services access-control. In this paper we propose an access control approach that uses uniquely renamed per client service operation names and role based access control, which unifies registry and Web services access control mechanisms. The proposed approach is applicable in the wired as well as the wireless environments, and can support a wide spectrum of enterprises.