The Monoculture Risk Put into Context

  • Authors:
  • Kenneth P. Birman;Fred B. Schneider

  • Affiliations:
  • Cornell University;Cornell University

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2009

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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 likely to be evoked by successive generations of defenses suggests that deploying a monoculture in conjunction with automated diversity is indeed a very sensible defense today.