• DocumentCode
    1131537
  • Title

    The Monoculture Risk Put into Context

  • Author

    Birman, Kenneth P. ; Schneider, Fred B.

  • Volume
    7
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    14
  • Lastpage
    17
  • 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.;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2009.24
  • Filename
    4768649
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1131537