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6) But the biggest reason is that there is value in diversifing yourThis reminds me of the current flap over flu vaccinations. The entire U.S. supply of flu vaccines from 2 vendors. 1 vendor (an overseas vendor at that) in the UK gets closed down and mayhem ensues. Somebody should be fired for this dumb decision.
server infastructure. For instance if you are using apache as an
application server and a validating proxy, what happens if there is
exploit found in the core HTTP processing in Apache? Basically both of
your defensives have been broken. For more information on this you might
want to read my article on network diversity which is here:
http://www.baus.net/archives/000051.html.
At least in the case of the routers, different vendors all happened to choose Cisco products. In the case of our Gov't, presumably a single agency conciously chose to only use 2 vaccine vendors.
Obviously, this lesson extends to all kinds of areas...such as the choice of OS for your personal computer :-)
Regards, John
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