diff --git a/monkey/monkey_island/cc/services/reporting/report.py b/monkey/monkey_island/cc/services/reporting/report.py
index f00fbc22c..84633cc81 100644
--- a/monkey/monkey_island/cc/services/reporting/report.py
+++ b/monkey/monkey_island/cc/services/reporting/report.py
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ class ReportService:
 
         formatted_nodes = []
 
+        # TODO Figure out and improve
         nodes = \
             [NodeService.get_displayed_node_by_id(node['_id'], True) for node in mongo.db.node.find({}, {'_id': 1})] \
             + [NodeService.get_displayed_node_by_id(monkey['_id'], True) for monkey in
diff --git a/monkey/monkey_island/cc/utils.py b/monkey/monkey_island/cc/utils.py
index 9c49eba2c..3e03d18b9 100644
--- a/monkey/monkey_island/cc/utils.py
+++ b/monkey/monkey_island/cc/utils.py
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ import struct
 import ipaddress
 from netifaces import interfaces, ifaddresses, AF_INET
 
+try:
+    from functools import lru_cache
+except ImportError:
+    from backports.functools_lru_cache import lru_cache
+
 __author__ = 'Barak'
 
 
@@ -46,9 +51,13 @@ else:
                     # name of interface is (namestr[i:i+16].split('\0', 1)[0]
         finally:
             return result
-# End of local ips function
 
 
+# The local IP addresses list should not change often. Therefore, we can cache the result and never call this function
+# more than once. This stopgap measure is here since this function is called a lot of times during the report
+# generation.
+# This means that if the interfaces of the Island machines change, the Island process needs to be restarted.
+@lru_cache(maxsize=1)
 def local_ip_addresses():
     ip_list = []
     for interface in interfaces():
@@ -57,6 +66,7 @@ def local_ip_addresses():
     return ip_list
 
 
+@lru_cache(maxsize=1)
 def get_subnets():
     subnets = []
     for interface in interfaces():
diff --git a/monkey/monkey_island/requirements.txt b/monkey/monkey_island/requirements.txt
index e6d81e6aa..92a118b07 100644
--- a/monkey/monkey_island/requirements.txt
+++ b/monkey/monkey_island/requirements.txt
@@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ mongoengine
 mongomock
 requests
 dpath
+backports