Approaches and Best Practices in Web Service Style, XML Data Binding and Validation – Implications to Securing Web Services

2008 ◽  
pp. 318-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asif Akram ◽  
David Meredith
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Xml Data ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Data Binding ◽  
Data Typing

This chapter shows how the WSDL interface style (RPC / Document), strength of data typing and approach to data binding and validation have important implications on application security (and interoperability). This is because some (common) bad-practices and poor implementation choices can render a service vulnerable to the consequences of propagating loosely bound or poorly constrained data. The chosen Web service style and strength of data typing dictate how SOAP messages are constructed and serialized, and to what extent SOAP messages can be constrained and secured during validation. The chosen approach to binding and validation dictates how and where the SOAP-body and SOAP-header (which includes the security constructs) are handled in the application, and also determines the reliability of message parsing. The authors show how these Web service styles and implementation choices must be carefully considered and applied correctly by providing implementation examples and best practice recommendations.

Web Services as XML Data Sources in Enterprise Information Integration

2011 ◽  
pp. 972-985
Author(s):  
Ákos Hajnal ◽  
Tamás Kifor ◽  
Gergely Lukácsy ◽  
László Z. Varga
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Relational Databases ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Xml Data ◽  
The Web

More and more systems provide data through web service interfaces and these data have to be integrated with the legacy relational databases of the enterprise. The integration is usually done with enterprise information integration systems which provide a uniform query language to all information sources, therefore the XML data sources of Web services having a procedural access interface have to be matched with relational data sources having a database interface. In this chapter the authors provide a solution to this problem by describing the Web service wrapper component of the SINTAGMA Enterprise Information Integration system. They demonstrate Web services as XML data sources in enterprise information integration by showing how the web service wrapper component integrates XML data of Web services in the application domain of digital libraries.

Protecting ASP.NET Web Services

2008 ◽  
pp. 206-227
Author(s):  
Konstantin Beznosov
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Real World ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Financial Organization ◽  
Security Infrastructure ◽  
Application Specific

This chapter reports on our experience of designing and implementing an architecture for protecting enterprise-grade Web service applications hosted by ASP.NET. Security mechanisms of Microsoft ASP.NET container—a popular hosting environment for Web services—have limited scalability, flexibility, and extensibility. They are therefore inade-quate for hosting enterprise-scale applications that need to be protected according to diverse and/or complex application-specific security policies. To overcome the limitations of ASP.NET security, we developed a flexible and extensible protection architecture. Deployed in a real-world security solution at a financial organization, the architecture enables integra-tion of ASP.NET into the organizational security infrastructure with reduced effort on the part of Web Service developers. Throughout this report, we discuss our design decisions, suggest best practices for constructing flexible and extensible authentication and authoriza-tion logic for Web Services, and share lessons learned.

scholarly journals Concussion Management Plans' Compliance with NCAA Requirements: Preliminary Evidence Suggesting Possible Improvement

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-237
Author(s):  
Christine M. Baugh ◽  
Emily Kroshus ◽  
Kaitlyn I. Perry ◽  
Alexandra P. Bourlas
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Concussion Management ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Baseline Examination

This study examined the extent to which concussion management plans at National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) member schools were in line with NCAA Concussion Policy and best practice recommendations in absence of any process to ensure compliance. Most schools' concussion management plans were in compliance with 3 (60%) or 4 (25.6%) of the NCAA's 4 required components. Annual athlete education and acknowledgement was the requirement least often included, representing an area for improvement. Further, schools tended to more often include best practices that were more medically-oriented (e.g., including baseline examination), compared to best practices that were less medical in nature (e.g., avoiding flagrant head hits).

scholarly journals Volcano observatory best practices (VOBP) workshops - a summary of findings and best-practice recommendations

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Pallister ◽  
Paolo Papale ◽  
John Eichelberger ◽  
Chris Newhall ◽  
Charles Mandeville ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Volcano Observatory

Before It Is Too Late: Implementation Strategies of an Efficient Opioid and Pain Stewardship Program

2019 ◽  
pp. 001857871988232
Author(s):  
Oscar Santalo
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Substance Misuse ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Drug Diversion ◽  
Stewardship Program ◽  
History Information ◽  
Dosing Strategies ◽  
Information Recognition

Hospital pharmacies may not have the necessary resources, tools, or policies in place to implement a valuable opioid stewardship program. Meanwhile, the number of opioid prescriptions and medication use has increased nationwide. The overuse of opioids is due to the challenging nature of pain management, drug diversion prevention, and opioid abuse, as well as difficulty in recognizing and implementing best practices regarding opioid stewardship. The purpose of this review is to describe the components and executional strategy of an effective opioid and pain stewardship program. Opioid and pain stewardship programs can help identify opportunities for better adherence to best practice recommendations such as standardization of opioid dosing strategies, prescription of multimodal and opioid-sparing regimens, identification of substance misuse, review of patient history information, recognition of pain as a disease state, and increased dispensing of opioid reversal medications.

scholarly journals Assessment of Evidence-Based Health and Safety Policies on Sudden Death and Concussion Management in Secondary School Athletics: A Benchmark Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (8) ◽  
pp. 756-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Adams ◽  
Samantha E. Scarneo ◽  
Douglas J. Casa
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Sudden Death ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
State Level ◽  
Heat Acclimatization ◽  
Automated External Defibrillators ◽  
Concussion Management ◽  
Practice Recommendations

Context: Implementation of best-practice health and safety policies has been shown to be effective at reducing the risk of sudden death in sport; however, little is known about the extent to which these policies are required within secondary school athletics.Objective: To examine best-practice health and safety policies pertaining to the leading causes of sudden death and to concussion management in sport mandated at the state level for secondary school athletics.Design: Descriptive observational study.Setting: State high school athletic associations (SHSAAs), state departments of education, and enacted legislation.Patients or Other Participants: United States (including the District of Columbia) SHSAAs.Main Outcome Measure(s): A review of SHSAA health and safety policies for the 2016–2017 academic year, state department of education policies, and enacted legislation was undertaken to assess the polices related to the leading causes of sudden death and concussion management in sport. Current best-practice recommendations used to assess health and safety policies were specific to emergency action plans, automated external defibrillators, heat acclimatization, environmental monitoring and modification, and concussion management. The total number of best-practice recommendations required for each SHSAA's member schools for the aforementioned areas was quantified and presented as total number and percentage of recommendations required.Results: Four of 51 SHSAA member schools were required to follow best practices for emergency action plans, 7 of 51 for access to automated external defibrillators, 8 of 51 for heat acclimatization, and 3 of 51 for management of concussion.Conclusions: At the time of this study, SHSAA member schools were not required to follow all best-practice recommendations for preventing the leading causes of sudden death and for concussion management in sport. Continued advocacy for the development and implementation of best practices at the state level to be required of all secondary schools is needed to appropriately serve the health and well-being of our young student-athletes.

Unilateral Hearing Loss in Young Children: Developing Best Practices with Limited Evidence

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah McKay
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Unilateral Hearing Loss ◽  
Clinical Expertise ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
Substantial Evidence ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Professional Perspectives

Substantial evidence exists to highlight the difficulties that children with UHL can experience. Unfortunately, the research regarding effective intervention for this population of children remains limited, particularly for young children. Professional perspectives vary widely regarding best choices and timing of interventions. As a result, clinicians are currently in a position of integrating the available scientific evidence with their clinical expertise to develop “best practice” recommendations for the management of their patients.

XML Data Binding for C++ Using Metadata

2013 ◽  
pp. 232-249
Author(s):  
Szabolcs Payrits ◽  
Péter Dornbach ◽  
István Zólyomi
Keyword(s):  
Web Service ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Extended Version ◽  
Code Size ◽  
Xml Data ◽  
C Programming Language ◽  
Data Binding ◽  
C Programming ◽  
Xml Document ◽  
And Performance

Mapping XML document schemas and Web Service interfaces to programming languages has an important role in effective creation of quality Web Service implementations. The authors present a novel way to map XML data to the C++ programming language. The proposed solution offers more flexibility and more compact code that makes it ideal for embedded environments. The article describes the concept and the architecture of the solution and compares it with existing solutions. This article is an extended version of the paper from ICWS 2006. The authors include a broader comparison with existing tools on Symbian and Linux platforms and evaluate the code size and performance.

Classification of Web-Service-Based Attacks and Mitigation Techniques

2018 ◽  
pp. 360-378
Author(s):  
Hossain Shahriar ◽  
Victor Clincy ◽  
William Bond
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Development Phase ◽  
Mitigation Techniques

Web services are being widely used for business integration. Understanding what these web services are and how they work is important. Attacks on these web services are a major concern and can expose an organizations' valuable resources. This chapter performs a survey describing web service attacks. The authors provide a taxonomy of web service vulnerabilities and explain how they can be exploited. This chapter discusses some of the approaches that make up best practices and some that are in the development phase. They also discuss some common approaches to address the vulnerabilities. This chapter discusses some of the approaches to be using in planning and securing web services. Securing web services is a very important part of a cybersecurity plan.

scholarly journals Quantitative research in tourism and hospitality: an agenda for best-practice recommendations

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 2776-2787 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. George Assaf ◽  
Mike G. Tsionas
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Main Observation ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality

Purpose This paper aims to serve as an important guide for more rigorous quantitative research in tourism and hospitality. Design/methodology/approach This paper relies on comments from several methodological experts in the field, as well as the authors’ main observation of the literature. Findings This paper identifies ten important areas of concern. In each of these areas, the authors provide recommendations for best practices. Research limitations/implications There are certainly other issues and concerns that are not covered in this paper. However, the issues addressed can be applied or generalized to most methodological contexts. Originality/value This paper does not present results from original research but provides interesting and comprehensive recommendations for more rigorous quantitative research.

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