The US government has taken its first steps towards a digital certification scheme designed to let citizens communicate with government departments securely over the Web. The project - called Access Certificates for Electronic Services (Aces...
Netscape has extended its partnership with security equipment developer Verisign, leading to the launch of a digital certification service for enterprise customers. The service is also targeted at enterprise software suppliers and Internet service...
Microsoft officials said the certification program is "more technically rigorous than anything we have posted before. According to Microsoft, companies producing software for Windows 2000 will find it difficult to achieve official certification.
The first LSB certifications arrived in August. The Free Standards Group announced the opening of a second Linux certification program to ensure compliance with the OpenI18N standard, which governs how software is built to work with many different...
The company is also creating a certification program that allows hardware makers whose products meet certain standards to carry the "iSCSI Designed for Windows" logo. Microsoft on Monday released an update to its Windows operating system to add...
There are certifications today that are more for IT administrators, but this is geared toward software developers," Cohlenberger said. Certification for programmers, better education and even new laws are needed to improve software security, stated...