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Title: IBM 'SMashes' Web 2.0 Security Risks

Author: Taft, Darryl K Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: eWeek, v25 n10 p36(2) Publication Date: Mar 24, 2008
  ISSN: 1530-6283
URL of Publication: http://www.eweek.com

IBM announced SMash, its new security technology for mashups and other Web 2.0 applications, in March 2008, and contributed the technology to the OpenAjax Alliance. Businesses are using mashups to enable non-technical internal users to take advantage of the host of web solutions that can be modified to create situational applications that can be put to immediate use. Security is an issue for Internet applications, and SMash was built to help reduce the risk. IBM spent a good deal of time researching mashups, and got more and more requests for security and widget interoperability from line-of-business users. While there are many proposals for browser and HTML modifications to boost the security of mashups, acceptance among browser vendors, standards groups and users takes too long to make such modifications viable in the near future. In developing SMash, Rod Smith, IBMs vice president of emerging technology, said We looked at it from the client side--of how to handle security without hampering the line-of-business users. SMash keeps code and data from each source separate but enables data to be shared through a secure channel of communications. IBM has tested SMash on Opera3, Internet Explorer and Firefox, and found that it is the first such technology that works without requiring modifications to the browser.

Companies:
IBM Corp Microsoft Corp
Mozilla Corp OpenAjax Alliance
Opera Software ASA

Products:
Cybersecurity Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer Opera
SMash Web 2.0

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