Title :
No clear answers on monoculture issues
Author :
Whittaker, James A.
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;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSECP.2003.1266365