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Some of the characteristics that make service-oriented architectures appealing for enterprise applications also make them vulnerable to security breaches. The vulnerabilities are primarily due to the openness of the service-execution environment, to the dynamic run-time selection and composition of services, and to the autonomy of the individual services. In this paper, we describe these vulnerabilities...