Optimal Placement of Network Security Monitoring Functions in NFV-Enabled Data Centers

• Published in: 2017 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (SC2) pp. 9 - 16
• Main Authors: Po-Ching Lin, Chia-Feng Wu, Po-Hsien Shih
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.11.2017
• Subjects: Data centers; DCN; Monitoring; network security monitoring; NFV; Optimization; Routing; SDN; Security; Topology; Virtual machine monitors

While infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provides benefits such as cost reduction, dynamic deployment and high availability for users, it also blurs the boundary between the internal and external networks, causing security threats such as insider attacks which cannot be observed by traditional secur...