No clear answers on monoculture issues

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 mach...

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Published in:IEEE security & privacy 2003-11, Vol.1 (6), p.18-19
Main Author: Whittaker, J.A.
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Biology computing
Computer industry
Computer information security
Computer languages
Computer programs
Computer security
Computer worms
Cures
Diseases
Hardware
Internet
Privacy
Running
Software
Telecommunications industry
Web server
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1540-7993
1558-4046
DOI:10.1109/MSECP.2003.1266365