Web Service Model - Security Issues

[Nicolas Dinh]

Hi,

I'm still quite new to all of this. But from what I understand, one of the main goals of using a Web Service Model is to essentially make its interface universal and accessible to anyone.

How does one protect one's Web Service from malicious attacks. One that comes into mind and can be done quite easily is flooding a Web Serice with SOAP calls. If the scope of the AXIS Web Service is per request, then the Web Servicee object is instantiated every time a SOAP call is made and can put quite a load or even crash the server that is hosting the Web Service?

Regards,

Nicolas Dinh

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