Which of the following is a benefit of vendor diversity?
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Correct answer: Zero-day resiliency.
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Vendor diversity, or using products and services from multiple vendors, enhances zero-day resiliency. If a zero-day vulnerability is discovered in one vendor's product, systems using diverse vendors are less likely to be entirely compromised because the attack vector may not affect other vendors' solutions. This limits the blast radius of such an attack. Patch availability is not directly a benefit; patches are vendor-specific and may or may not be available quickly. Secure configuration guide applicability is also not a direct benefit; while guides are important, vendor diversity doesn't inherently make them more applicable. Load balancing is a technique for distributing network traffic, not a direct benefit of vendor diversity in the context of security resilience.
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