So, do you like working with and around SOA? That's great because so do we, and we've been doing it every single day since a long time ago. As SOA professionals, we've seen the concept grow, change and mature, bringing up new dimensions and technology with it. We're Arturo Viveros and Rolando Carrasco, the SOA Myth Busters from Mexico, and through this series of articles, we will try and put to the test a number of questions, myths and urban legends regarding both Service Orientation & SOA Architectures in search of finding out which myths are true and which are not.

A perfectly coded but poorly designed application can end up having egregious security defects. The authors of Enterprise Software Security: A Confluence of Disciplines take a look at "design" in a general sense and include some aspects that you might or might not consider to be design work per se. These include requirements and specifications.

The AWS SDK for Java provides an easy to use, client-side encryption mechanism to help you securely store your application's data in Amazon S3. Since the encryption/decryption is all done client side, your private encryption keys never leave your application.

This article explains SQL injection attacks, how to defend against them, and how to keep your Chief Information Security Officer from appearing on the nightly news.

The choice of architecture methodology can increase or diminish efficiency. It is necessary to understand which methodology provides the most effective approach.

This article explores the somewhat hidden world of embedded computing and its emerging security issues. As computing power spreads into our everyday appliances and electronic devices, many principles of computer security are slow to be added to the feature list. What can we do?

This article explores the JAAS-based security authentication on Java Server Pages (JSPs).

This article discusses .NET assemblies and strong name signature. In addition to providing some benefits like versioning and giving name uniqueness to an assembly, strong name provides a strong integrity check, and here is the point of this article! By strongly naming an assembly, you are supposed to ensure that your binary has not been tampered with since it was compiled or built.

Managing security requirements from early phases of software development is critical. This article discusses how to map security requirements to user stories in Agile projects.

This article discusses the usage of SecureRandom in Java to create random numbers. If random numbers might look easy when you hear about them for the first time, it is not so easy to create them. In the case of Java, the trade-off is between performance and security, so choose wisely.