Slashdot Mirror
The Biology of Network Security
Bob Brown writes "A University of New Mexico researcher is taking lessons from biology and using them to try to stymie hackers and viruses. Projects such as RISE attempt to secure computers and networks by promoting application diversity." From the article: "Diversity of systems and applications can play a key role in safeguarding computers and networks from malicious attacks, Forrest said. Her team published a paper last year on a system dubbed RISE (Randomized Instruction Set Emulation) (PDF) that randomizes an application's machine code to stymie would-be attacks, such as those launched via binary code injection."
"This is a little tricky because we don't want to make everyone write their own operating system or e-mail reader from scratch or even learn a new interface," Forrest said.
Speak for yourself, this is a lifelong obsession.
A wise man once said - 'Never connect to the internet and your troubles will be few.'
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
>>So you mean they're parasites since we're using biological terminology
Yeah, just like end-users.
<g>
Why do my serious comments get modded "funny"?