Web Services Security (WSS): SOAP Message Security is a set of enhancements to SOAP messaging that provides message integrity and confidentiality. WSS: SOAP Message Security is extensible, and can accommodate a variety of security models and encryption technologies.
WSS: SOAP Message Security provides three main mechanisms that can be used independently or together:
WSS: SOAP Message Security can be used in conjunction with other Web service extensions and application-specific protocols to satisfy a variety of security requirements.