http://blogs.msdn.com/sajay/archive/2007/01/05/thoughts-on-basichttpbinding-security-and-ssl.aspxBasicHttpBinding, can there be security?. Yes! The point is this binding can be secured and that too with transport level security and restricted to https(SSL) or message level Check this post for details. http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2006/06/01/612672.aspxen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)