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.
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