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A cyber attack-resilient server inspired by biological diversity

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This paper describes a novel cyber attack-resilient server inspired by the concept of biological diversity. The server consists of several virtual machines running different operating systems and different implementations of the same server protocol specification. This approach is based on the observation that not all implementations are affected by the same vulnerability, except for vulnerabilities in specifications and on shared libraries. A prototype system was built and tested to evaluate the continuity of the service. The results showed that, by exploiting a vulnerability, the prototype system could suppress downtime of the DNS service to less than 4 s without false positives.

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  1. Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Atsugi, Japan

    Fumikazu Sano & Takeshi Okamoto

  2. Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan

    Idris Winarno, Yoshikazu Hata & Yoshiteru Ishida

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Sano, F., Okamoto, T., Winarno, I. et al. A cyber attack-resilient server inspired by biological diversity. Artif Life Robotics 21, 345–350 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-016-0286-5

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