Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Software builds applications. Some of those applications ...

A web application is any computer program that performs various functions using a web browser. It allows visitors to submit and acquire information from the internet. The modern day websites are way ...

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an international nonprofit dedicated to providing free documentation, tools, videos, and forums for anyone interested in improving the security of ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is a critical component of an enterprise security infrastructure, providing a key security layer for web-facing applications and APIs. As web applications mature and ...

An executable program written for the operating system and hardware that it runs in. For example, a Windows application is written to interface with the Windows OS and the x86 machine language. An ...

Legacy web applications are synchronous in nature. The user interacts with the web interface presented in the browser, the browser makes requests back to the server based on that user interaction, and ...

Apple knows that Web apps need a little more functionality to become more like conventional apps. With this in mind, it has also created a bunch of APIs web developers can use to control elements of ...