Automated Diversity in Computer Systems

Abstract

Attackers penetrate a large number of computers by exploiting common vulnerabilities. The objective of this effort is to address this internet-wide weakness by introducing diversity into computers so that a successful attack on one computer does not necessarily work on another one, even though it may be running identical software.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA439916

Entities

People

  • Stephanie Forrest

Organizations

  • University of New Mexico

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Code Injection
  • Coding
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Cybersecurity
  • Debugging
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Machine Languages
  • Military Research
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Shell Scripts
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Operations Research