Cybersec Canon Ep 2. The Cuckoo’s Egg - Chapter 3 & 4. The Hidden Cost of Custom Software Ecosystems

Building proprietary software stacks instead of relying on open-source or commercially available solutions has many benefits but also hidden costs.

Photo by Jamie Saw on Unsplash

“Since their computers are often the first ones off the production line, Livermore usually has to write their own operating systems, forming a bizarre software ecology, unseen outside of their laboratory. Such are the costs of living in a classified world.”

Stoll, Clifford. CUCKOO'S EGG (p. 17). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Gr…