An application development company implements object reuse to reduce life-cycle costs for the company and its clients. Despite the overall cost savings, which of the following BEST describes a…

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• AConfigurations of applications will affect multiple products.
• BReverse engineering of applications will lead to intellectual property loss
• CSoftware patch deployment will occur less often
• DHomogeneous vulnerabilities will occur across multiple products

• A
  9% (2)
• B
  4% (1)
• D
  87% (20)

Explanation

Object reuse means the same code components (libraries, modules, classes) are shared across multiple applications and products. While this reduces development cost, it creates a monoculture risk: if a vulnerability is discovered in a reused object, every product that incorporates that object is equally vulnerable. This is called a homogeneous vulnerability. A single exploit can therefore compromise multiple products simultaneously, dramatically increasing the blast radius of any attack. Configuration affecting multiple products (A) is a management concern, not a direct security risk of reuse. IP loss through reverse engineering (B) is unrelated to code reuse. Reduced patching frequency (C) is not an inherent outcome of object reuse.

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