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REA is pleased to announce it has been assigned patent number, 11,374,961, with an issuance date of June 28, 2022 for its Software Assurance Guardian (SAG™)
— Joanne Brooks, REA Co-Founder
WESTFIELD, MA, USA, June 8, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Today, REA is pleased to announce it has been assigned patent number, 11,374,961, with an effective issuance date of June 28, 2022 for its Software Assurance Guardian (SAG™) METHODS FOR VERIFICATION OF SOFTWARE OBJECT AUTHENTICITY AND INTEGRITY for software products and the software supply chain (C-SCRM). REA was motivated to develop this patented technology to assess risk and trust in a software supply chain starting in November, 2018 after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order 850, “Supply Chain Risk Management Reliability Standards” [18CFR40] to protect the bulk electric grid from software supply chain risks.
The SAG patent describes seven steps containing detailed, technical practices and processes that are designed to help a software consumer determine the trustworthiness of a software object and its entire supply chain, expressed as a statistically calculated SAGScore™, to make a risked based decision prior to procurement and installation of a software product, to…
