Information Security Handbook

2 Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Security Concerns

Muhammad Junaid Nazar, Saleem Iqbal, Saud Altaf, Kashif Naseer Qureshi, Khalid Hussain Usmani, and Sobia Wassan

CONTENTS

1. 2.1 Introduction
2. 2.2 Potential Anomalies in SDN
3. 2.2.1 Unauthorized Access
4. 2.2.2 Malicious Application
5. 2.2.3 Network Manipulation
6. 2.2.4 Traffic Diversion
7. 2.2.5 Denial of Service (DoS)
8. 2.2.6 Configuration Issues
9. 2.2.7 Data Leakage
10. 2.3 Security Analyses and Research Challenges
11. 2.3.1 SDN Security Analyses
12. 2.3.2 Scenarios
13. 2.3.2.1 Scenario 1
14. 2.3.2.2 Scenario 2
15. 2.3.2.3 Scenario 3
16. 2.3.3 Research Challenges
17. 2.4 Conclusion
18. References

DOI: 10.1201/9780367808228-2

2.1 Introduction

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a networking approach to enable network administrators to ...