Palamida Awarded Patent for Multi-Pattern Searching

Second Patent Award in 2010

- July 19, 2010 - Palamida, the industry leader in application security for open source, today announced that it has been granted a US patent for its algorithm for Massive Multi-Pattern Searching (No. 7,711,719). This award recognizes the specialized challenge of searching source code for elements that may have originated elsewhere.

The challenge of searching source code as opposed to the web is the fact that it requires a multi-pattern approach because the goal is different. In a web search, the goal is to find sites that contain content defined by a relatively small number of words. In searching source code the goal is to determine if all or part of one program is contained in another. That is best done by breaking the programs up into a massive number of short search terms (source code fingerprints) and comparing the first program to multiple others to find matches between them. By analyzing the result the technique can determine that the code being analyzed contains the open source program zlib, for example. Without a highly optimized way of creating and comparing the search terms, the processing time would be impractically long.

“We are committed to continuous innovation to improve our customers ability to more accurately manage and secure the software that they create – and we’re pleased that our work is creating valuable new techniques to do so”, said Mark Tolliver, CEO of Palamida.

This patent is the second awarded to Palamida during 2010. The first was for technique to create a document similarity metric.

About Palamida

Palamida provides the industry’s first application security solution exclusively for open source software. The Palamida Enterprise Edition uses component-level analysis to quickly identify and track undisclosed code and associated security vulnerabilities, as well as intellectual property and compliance issues. Using Palamida, organizations can cost-effectively manage and secure mission critical Web and software applications.

For more information visit: www.palamida.com.