CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly

Geer, D., Bace, R., Gutmann, P., Metzger, P., Pfleeger, C. P., Quarterman, J. S., & Schneier, B. (2003). CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly: The Cost of Monopoly.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2003

Link

https://cryptome.org/cyberinsecurity.htm

Cited from

systems_cybernetics

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Dependency Distribution Concentration
  • In information technology, single-vendor lock-in, single-CDN dependency, cloud-region concentration, and operating-system monoculture all amplify any single vulnerability or outage.

    This sourceArgues operating-system monoculture concentrates dependency so that a single vulnerability is shared system-wide — the IT-concentration instance amplifying a single outage or exploit.

• Swiss Cheese Model (Layered Defense with Aligning Holes)
  • Reliability engineering's defense-in-depth arithmetic moved into cybersecurity, where hole-correlation analysis makes single-product complete-security claims structurally suspicious.

    This sourceA software monoculture creates correlated vulnerability — one exploit affects every machine at once — making single-product complete-security claims structurally suspect.

Mechanisms

• Counter-Monoculture Seed Grant
  • The danger of software monoculture as a systemic fragility is not hypothetical — it is the argument security researchers made two decades ago about betting an entire ecosystem on one codebase.

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