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Software Self-Healing Using Collaborative Application Communities
Overview Software monocultures are usually considered dangerous because their size and uniformity represent the potential for costly and widespread damage. The emerging concept of collaborative security provides the opportunity to re-examine the utility of software monoculture by exploiting the homogeneity and scale that typically define large software monocultures. Monoculture can be leveraged to improve an application's overall security and reliability. This paper introduces and explores the concept of Application Communities: collections of large numbers of independent instances of the same application. Appropriate mitigation mechanisms are then deployed against the newly discovered fault. This paper explores the concept of an application community and determines its feasibility through analytical modeling and a prototype implementation focusing on software faults and vulnerabilities.
| Publisher | Columbia University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | October 2009 | ||
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