Design Diversity for Mitigating Monoculture Induced Threats

Monoculture induced threats such as "pass the hash" attacks can spread more easily through a system of similar components. Introducing a few different and more robust components in the system has the potential to mitigate such situations. In this paper, we propose a constrained resource allocation optimization framework exploring the binary decision diagram (BDD) and mixed integer linear programming techniques. An illustrative example is provided.