Abstract: Provided herein are methodologies, systems, and devices for facilitating software discovery within a server environment using an enterprise-specific application identifier tag file. Such enterprise-specific application identifier tag files can be created for applications from various vendors and can include enterprise-specific information not known to an application vendor. Once created, the enterprise-specific application identifier tag file is deployed within the server environment, and may be saved on a database associated with the server environment. The application identifier tag files can include a link to their corresponding application files and can facilitate in application/software discovery by allowing a user to determine application information by performing an enterprise-specific application identifier tag file query.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for permitting nodes of a federated system to quickly and efficiently evaluate themselves for compliance or non-compliance with a set of requirements and detection of vulnerabilities. Both hardware and software configurations may be rapidly evaluated in real-time, using a multi-dimensional bit array, by hashing a configuration and using the value as a look-up index in a peer-to-peer distributed ledger. Speed is provided by the distributed process in which the nodes evaluate themselves, and scalability is achieved because the look-up speed is largely independent of increases in size and complexity. Blockchain technology ensures trustworthy data and stores allowable configurations according to hash values, and secure validated means of communication are leveraged to share results and updates.

Abstract: Provided herein are methodologies, systems, and devices for facilitating software discovery within a server environment using an enterprise-specific application identifier tag file. Such enterprise-specific application identifier tag files can be created for applications from various vendors and can include enterprise-specific information not known to an application vendor. Once created, the enterprise-specific application identifier tag file is deployed within the server environment, and may be saved on a database associated with the server environment. The application identifier tag files can include a link to their corresponding application files and can facilitate in application/software discovery by allowing a user to determine application information by performing an enterprise-specific application identifier tag file query.