A few weeks ago I posted a piece on the threats of a software monoculture, a New York Times journalist saw the post and interviewed me:
‘Was I an expert? Er – no, its not a new idea and its kind of obvious if you look at argriculture’.
Thankfully the CCIA then published a report which levelled the same argument but from a much more authoritative stance.
Michael Gartenberg, a Jupiter analyst, posts that the monoculture threat is groundless.
His argument: “The fallacy is that diverse systems will not have security issues or holes”.
Nobody has claimed that diverse systems would not have flaws, but diverse environments are not prone to the same catastrophic failures that monocultures are susceptible to.
Thankfully Gartenberg is a Jupiter analyst and not a farmer.