Security and the Software Defined Network

Modern networks are undergoing an exciting transition toward a paradigm of greater programmability and dynamic flow management. For the network security community, this transformation is opening attractive opportunities for more innovative forms of threat mitigation. It is also raising interesting challenges in how to reconcile our legacy notions of well-defined security policy enforcement. I will discuss some of the ongoing work toward securing software defined networks (SDNs), as well as some interesting new SDN-enabled security and management applications.

Speaker: Phillip Porras, SRI International