WSM

Oracle Web Services Manager (O-WSM) provides a policy framework to manage and secure Web services consistently across your organization. It provides capabilities to build, enforce, run and monitor Web service policies, such as security, reliable messaging, MTOM, and addressing policies. OWSM can be used by both developers, at design time, and system administrators in production environments.

OWSM provides business agility to respond to security threats and security breaches by allowing policy changes to be enforced in real time without the need to interrupt the running business processes.

WSM provides the "first mile security" via client agents for securing Web service clients, and "last mile security" via server agents securing Web services. If your Web services are accessible only from inside the corporate intranet, they typically still require authentication and authorization. In addition, auditing is often required to address regulatory compliance.

OWSM allows you to:

Centrally define and store declarative policies applied to the multiple Web services.

Locally enforce policies through configurable agents.

Monitor run time security events such as failed authentication or authorization.