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ConsortiumInfo: Monocultures and Document formats: Dan's Bomb Goes Off

May 24, 2006, 01:45 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Andy Updegrove)

"Dan Geer is an extremely well respected security expert. When he worries about something, people listen.

"One of the things he has worried--and warned--about is the danger represented by IT 'monocultures'--the situation that arises when everyone uses the same software, for example, and therefore everyone shares the same vulnerability to a computer virus or other security threat..."

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