TEL AVIV, Israel – Operational technology (OT), cyber and risk management provider OTORIO has launched an open source Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) hardening toolkit to protect ...

TEL AVIV, Israel – Operational technology (OT), cyber and risk management provider OTORIO has launched an open source Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) hardening toolkit to protect ...

DCOM or Distributed Component Object Model is a proprietary Microsoft technology that allows Component Object Model (COM) software to communicate across a network.

The lack of those two characteristics caused other SOA efforts to fizzle – most recently the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM).

The Microsoft COM is a platform-independent, distributed, object-oriented system for creating binary software components that can interact with each other.

Such protocols include CORBA IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol), Microsoft DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model), and Java RMI (Remote Method Invocation).

The big competition for Corba then was the Open Software Foundation (OSF), with its Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) standard. Meanwhile, Microsoft was not really in the DOC game at all, other ...