Title :
The Monoculture Risk Put into Context
Author :
Birman, Kenneth P. ; Schneider, Fred B.
Abstract :
Conventional wisdom holds that software monocultures are exceptionally vulnerable to malware outbreaks. The authors argue that this oversimplifies and misleads. An analysis based on attacker reactions suggests that deploying a monoculture in conjunction with automated diversity is indeed a very sensible defense.
Keywords :
social aspects of automation; attacker reactions; automated diversity; malware outbreaks; monoculture risk; software monocultures; Biology; Computer architecture; Computer interfaces; Costs; Investments; Management training; Operating systems; Pathogens; Procurement; Software tools; artificial diversity; configuration attack; monoculture; networked information system security; stack randomization; technology attack; trust attack.;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSP.2009.24
