Paper Info
Title
Measuring Software Diversity, with Applications to Security.
Abstract
In this work, we briefly introduce and discuss some of the diversity measures used in Ecology. After a succinct description and analysis of the most relevant ones, we single out the Shannon-Weiner index. We justify why it is the most informative and relevant one for measuring software diversity. Then, we show how it can be used for effectively assessing the diversity of various real software ecosystems. We discover in the process a frequently overlooked software monopoly, and its key security implications. We finally extract some conclusions from the results obtained, focusing mostly on their security implications.
Year
Venue
Field
2013
CoRR
World Wide Web,Computer security,Computer science,Software,Monopoly,Software diversity
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1310.3307
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Julio C. Hernandez-Castro129826.88
Jeremy Rossman200.34