The software and networking industry is experiencing a rapid development and deployment of Network Functions Visualization (NFV) technology, in both enterprise and cloud data center networks. One of the primary reasons for this technological trend is that NFV has the capability to reduce CAPEX and OPEX, whilst increasing networking service efficiency, performance, agility, scalability, and resource utilization. Despite such well-recognized benefits, security remains a major concern of network service providers and seriously impedes the further expansion of NFV. This book is therefore dedicated to investigating and exploring the potential security issues of NFV. It contains three major elements: a thorough overview of the NFV framework and architecture, a comprehensive threat analysis aiming to establish a layer-specific threat taxonomy for NFV enabled networking services, and a series of comparative studies of security best practices in traditional networking scenarios and in NFV, ultimately leading to a set of recommendations on security countermeasures in NFV. This book is primarily intended for engineers, engineering students and researchers and those with an interest in the field of networks and telecommunications (architectures, protocols, services) in general, and particularly software-defined network (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV)-based security services.

Explores the potential security issues for Networks Functions Virtualization (NFV) based on a comprehensive survey on the NFV framework and architecture

About the Author
Zonghua Zhang is a faculty member of IMT Lille Douai, Institut Mines-Telecom in France. He holds a PhD in information science and an HDR (accreditation for research supervision) diploma in computer science. He has more than 15 years of academic and research experience in cybersecurity. Ahmed Meddahi is Professor at IMT Lille Douai, Institut Mines-Telecom in France. He holds a PhD from Evry University with Institut National des Telecom and an HDR from UPMC-Paris 6 University. He has over 20 years of academic and research experience in network protocols and architecture.


Book Information
ISBN 9781785482571
Author Zonghua Zhang
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint ISTE Press Ltd - Elsevier Inc
Publisher ISTE Press Ltd - Elsevier Inc
Weight(grams) 280g