Chapter 7. Securing SDN and NFV Environments

Topics covered in this chapter include

   Security Considerations for the SDN Landscape

   Security Considerations for the NFV Landscape

In Chapter 6, “Benefits of SDN and NFV Technologies,” we discussed several benefits to leveraging NFV and SDN technology to make network environments run leaner. The technologies introduce major improvements in application deployment, operation, and retirement. This chapter focuses on the threat landscapes for the SDN and NFV environments and thoroughly addresses each component.

Security Considerations for the SDN Landscape

One of the primary SDN concepts is to provide open interfaces that allow software to control a set of infrastructure resources, including ...

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