[dayglored]

> What would be your assesment of the government’s ability to implement secure heterogenous networks?

Frankly, I don't have direct professional experience with the government's networks; my career is pretty broad but has been mostly aerospace/industrial/commercial.

I don't have a lot of faith in the government's ability to do -anything- right, but that's a larger question. :)

I don't think heterogeneity has a bad effect, and might be a benefit. A Windows monoculture is proven to be a bad idea, security-wise, but that's true of any monoculture.

Gonna have to run to work now... I'll catch up with the thread later today...

[tacticalogic]

I don't think heterogeneity has a bad effect, and might be a benefit. A Windows monoculture is proven to be a bad idea, security-wise, but that's true of any monoculture.

What's your basis / criteria for this "proof"? Securing heterogenous networks has consistenly proven more problematic than homogenous networks.