A comprehensive survey on SDN security: threats, mitigations, and future directions

• Published in: Journal of reliable intelligent environments Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 201 - 239
• Main Authors: Maleh, Yassine, Qasmaoui, Youssef, El Gholami, Khalid, Sadqi, Yassine, Mounir, Soufyane
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.06.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Computer architecture; Computer Science; Controllers; Cybersecurity; Denial of service attacks; Health Informatics; Performance and Reliability; Review; Routers; Simulation and Modeling; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Software-defined networking; State-of-the-art reviews; Switches; Taxonomy; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Software Defined Network; Application plane; SDN mitigations; Data plane; Control plane; SDN threats; SDN attacks

Nowadays, security threats on Software Defined Network SDN architectures are similar to traditional networks. However, the profile of these threats changes with SDN. For example, a denial-of-service attack on a centralized controller that manages a large network of several network devices (routers,...