diff --git a/HIRS_Utils/src/main/java/hirs/utils/JsonUtils.java b/HIRS_Utils/src/main/java/hirs/utils/JsonUtils.java
index 78dfb0d4..63140cf3 100644
--- a/HIRS_Utils/src/main/java/hirs/utils/JsonUtils.java
+++ b/HIRS_Utils/src/main/java/hirs/utils/JsonUtils.java
@@ -101,6 +101,30 @@ public final class JsonUtils {
         return jsonObject;
     }
 
+
+
+
+    public static JsonObject getSpecificJsonObject(final String jsonFilename, final String elementName) {
+        // find the file and load it
+        return getSpecificJsonObject(jsonFilename, elementName, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+    }
+
+    public static JsonObject getSpecificJsonObject(final String jsonFilename,
+                                                   final String elementName,
+                                                   final Charset charset) {
+        // find the file and load it
+        JsonObject jsonObject = getJsonObject(jsonFilename, charset);
+
+        if (jsonObject != null && jsonObject.get(elementName) != null) {
+            return jsonObject.get(elementName).asObject();
+        }
+
+        return new JsonObject();
+    }
+    public static JsonObject getJsonObject(final String jsonFilename) {
+        return getJsonObject(jsonFilename, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+    }
+
     public static JsonObject getJsonObject(final String jsonFilename, final Charset charset) {
         // find the file and load it
         JsonObject jsonObject = new JsonObject();
diff --git a/HIRS_Utils/src/main/java/hirs/utils/tpm/eventlog/uefi/UefiGuid.java b/HIRS_Utils/src/main/java/hirs/utils/tpm/eventlog/uefi/UefiGuid.java
index c0357e49..00c22ce1 100644
--- a/HIRS_Utils/src/main/java/hirs/utils/tpm/eventlog/uefi/UefiGuid.java
+++ b/HIRS_Utils/src/main/java/hirs/utils/tpm/eventlog/uefi/UefiGuid.java
@@ -72,9 +72,13 @@ public class UefiGuid {
             System.out.println("XXXX EMPTYYYYYYY, before trying to grab file from code");
 
 
-            uefiVendorRef = JsonUtils.getJsonObject("vendor-table2.json",
+//            uefiVendorRef = JsonUtils.getJsonObject("vendor-table2.json",
+//                    StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+
+            uefiVendorRef = JsonUtils.getSpecificJsonObject("vendor-table2.json", "VendorTable",
                     StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
 
+
 //            System.out.println("XXXX getClass: " + getClass());
 //            System.out.println("XXXX getClassResource: " + getClass().getResource("/vendor-table2.json"));
 //