• DocumentCode
    890077
  • Title

    No clear answers on monoculture issues

  • Author

    Whittaker, James A.

  • Volume
    1
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2003
  • Firstpage
    18
  • Lastpage
    19
  • Abstract
    The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) recently released a report that questioned monoculture´s effect on cybersecurity. The report´s central idea is that if everyone is running the same hardware and software (a monoculture), a single attack could compromise every machine on the Internet. We obviously need to avoid such a situation, but implying that monoculture is the main cause and destroying monoculture the cure is naive.
  • Keywords
    Internet; security of data; telecommunication security; CCIA; Computer and Communications Industry Association; Internet; cybersecurity; monoculture; Biology computing; Computer industry; Computer languages; Computer security; Computer worms; Databases; Diseases; Internet; Privacy; Web server;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSECP.2003.1266365
  • Filename
    1266365