Validating User Flows to Protect Software Defined Network Environments

Software Defined Network is a promising network paradigm which has led to several security threats in SDN applications that involve user flows, switches, and controllers in the network. Threats as spoofing, tampering, information disclosure, Denial of Service, flow table overloading, and so on have been addressed by many researchers. In this paper, we present novel SDN design to solve three security threats: flow table overloading is solved by constructing a star topology-based architecture, unsupervised hashing method mitigates link spoofing attack, and fuzzy classifier combined with L1-ELM running on a neural network for isolating anomaly packets from normal packets. For effective flow migration Discrete-Time Finite-State Markov Chain model is applied. Extensive simulations using OMNeT++ demonstrate the performance of our proposed approach, which is better at preserving holding time than are other state-of-the-art works from the literature

Towards smarter SDN switches:revisiting the balance of intelligence in SDN networks

Software Defined Networks (SDNs) represent a new model for building networks, in which the control plane is separated from the forwarding plane, allowing for centralised, fine grained control of traffic in the network. The benefits of SDN range widely from reducing operational costs of networks to providing better Quality of Service guarantees to its users. Its application has been shown to increase the efficiency of large networks such as data centers and improve security through Denial of Service mitigation systems and other traffic monitoring efforts. While SDN has been shown to be highly beneficial, some of its core features (e.g separation of control and data planes and limited memory) allow malicious users to carry out Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against the network, reducing its availability and performance. Denial of Service attacks are explicit attempts to prevent legitimate users from accessing a service or resource. Such attacks can take many forms but are almost always costly to its victims, both financially and reputationally. SDN applications have been developed to mitigate some forms of DoS attacks aimed at traditional networks however, its intrinsic properties facilitate new attacks. We investigate in this thesis, the opportunity for such Denial of Service attacks in more recent versions of SDN and extensively evaluate its effect on a legitimate user’s throughput. In light of the potential for such DoS attacks which specifically target the SDN infrastructure (controller, switch flow table etc), we propose that increasing the intelligence of SDN switches can increase the resilience of the SDN network by preventing attack traffic from entering the network at its source. To demonstrate this, we put forward in this thesis, designs for an intelligent SDN Switch and implement two additional functionalities towards realising this design into a software version of the SDN switch. These modules allow the switch to efficiently handle high control plane loads, both malicious and legitimate, to ensure the network continues to provide good service even under such circumstances. Evaluation of these modules indicate they effectively preserve the performance of the network under under high control plane loads far better than unmodified switches, with no notable drawbacks

Kommunikation und Bildverarbeitung in der Automation

In diesem Open-Access-Tagungsband sind die besten Beiträge des 9. Jahreskolloquiums "Kommunikation in der Automation" (KommA 2018) und des 6. Jahreskolloquiums "Bildverarbeitung in der Automation" (BVAu 2018) enthalten. Die Kolloquien fanden am 20. und 21. November 2018 in der SmartFactoryOWL, einer gemeinsamen Einrichtung des Fraunhofer IOSB-INA und der Technischen Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe statt. Die vorgestellten neuesten Forschungsergebnisse auf den Gebieten der industriellen Kommunikationstechnik und Bildverarbeitung erweitern den aktuellen Stand der Forschung und Technik. Die in den Beiträgen enthaltenen anschaulichen Beispiele aus dem Bereich der Automation setzen die Ergebnisse in den direkten Anwendungsbezug

Jornadas Nacionales de Investigación en Ciberseguridad: actas de las VIII Jornadas Nacionales de Investigación en ciberseguridad: Vigo, 21 a 23 de junio de 2023

Jornadas Nacionales de Investigación en Ciberseguridad (8ª. 2023. Vigo)atlanTTicAMTEGA: Axencia para a modernización tecnolóxica de GaliciaINCIBE: Instituto Nacional de Cibersegurida