Systems need to talk to one another. When an IT environment contains platforms with multiple messaging protocols—and most do—a message queue (MQ) is required to handle the messages that travel back ...

Microsoft has hustled out an out-of-band update to address a Message Queuing issue introduced by the December 2025 update.

For years, I/S organizations saw message oriented middleware, or message queuing, as a high risk solution. Today that risk is diminishing quickly. For more than two decades, companies have mostly used ...

IPC is a method that allows processes to communicate and exchange data. There are different types of IPC facilities, including semaphores, message queues, shared memory, and pipes. IPCS is a ...

In this final piece, I will continue with some more detailed items on how to ensure PCI message queue compliance. In part 1 of this series, I detailed issues around PCI and message queuing. In part 2 ...

A critical flaw in Microsoft Message Queuing Service is likely to be exploited as many organizations could be unaware that it is active. Microsoft patched over 100 vulnerabilities this week in its ...

A queue is a data structure that works on a FIFO (first in first out) basis. Items are inserted at the rear of the queue and removed from the front. The term “Enqueue” denotes the operation that ...