Homogeneity as an advantage: it takes a community to protect an application

摘要: We examine how to turn the scale of a large homogeneous software deployment from an operational and security disadvantage into advantageous application community that can detect, diagnose, recover its own faults malicious attacks. propose system called VERNIER provides virtualized execution environment in conjunction with collaborative diagnosis response functions using knowledge-sharing infrastructure. report on preliminary implementation system, experimental evaluation, lessons learned during development.