More known for political snits than tech leadership, the Web Services Interoperability group, backed by IBM and others, shoots for a turnaround. But the first step's a doozy. Martin LaMonica is a ...

The hype surrounding Web services has reached crescendo proportions. That's not surprising given how eager some big information-technology companies are to find some sort of recurring, high-margin ...

A group working to ensure the compatibility of Web services software is preparing to tackle its biggest challenge yet: Security. The Web Services Interoperability organization (WS-I) was formed last ...

The Web Services One Conference, at which developers plotted and planned a look for our next-generation Web infrastructure, wrapped up in Boston recently. Random security topics abounded within the ...

About half of all enterprise applications written in the last 15 years were written in Java (or one of its derivations). Many control access to sensitive data, so it’s no wonder that they are popular ...

Security teams in large enterprises already spend significant time tracking vulnerabilities across software supply chains, third-party libraries, and internal codebases. Java environments add another ...

If the blizzard of specifications related to Web services security has left you snow blind, you have plenty of company. WS-Security, from Microsoft, IBM, and VeriSign, deals with the protection and ...

Java is a popular computing platform, but lately, Java is blamed for its security vulnerabilities. It is recommended by many to disable or completely uninstall Java. However, there are applications ...