Software Life Cycle Management Standards

CHAPTER 10: SWID AND SWEID TAG MANAGEMENT FOR CONSUMERS

The software life cycle

Figure 54: Software/Saas product life cycle

Figure 54 is a reminder of our life cycle. The third step in the cycle involves both the publisher/creator as well as the consumer. The publisher delivers both SWID and SWEID tags; the consumer receives them.

The SWEID tag

The SWEID tag may be recorded directly into some form of entitlement database, an example of which is shown in Figure 55.

Figure 55: VeriTag Enterprise architecture

The task requires that:

• the publisher ...