diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6766418e5..3e0e29981 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -129,7 +129,6 @@
         <commons-lang3.version>3.4</commons-lang3.version>
         <commons-logging.version>1.2</commons-logging.version>
         <coveralls-maven-plugin.version>4.0.0</coveralls-maven-plugin.version>
-        <ecs.version>1.4.2</ecs.version>
         <guava.version>18.0</guava.version>
         <h2.version>1.4.190</h2.version>
         <hsqldb.version>1.8.0.10</hsqldb.version>
diff --git a/webgoat-container/pom.xml b/webgoat-container/pom.xml
index 95d366f88..852103c6e 100644
--- a/webgoat-container/pom.xml
+++ b/webgoat-container/pom.xml
@@ -252,11 +252,6 @@
             <artifactId>wsdl4j</artifactId>
             <version>${wsdl4j.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>ecs</groupId>
-            <artifactId>ecs</artifactId>
-            <version>${ecs.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
             <artifactId>javax.transaction-api</artifactId>