The course will illustrate the peculiarities of software networks from the security point of view. It will present the specific vulnerabilities they expose and how their flexibility can be used to ease their management and increase their mitigation and reaction abilities. Moreover, the course will present the state of the art and the main research issues in the security of software networks field.

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• introduction to software networks, the NFV architecture • introduction to security objectives in software networks • Network Security Functions and security capabilities models • security analysis of software networks, threats, vulnerabilities, and risks, • flexible management and mitigation of security risks • the Policy-Based Network Management and Policy-Based Security Management paradigms • automatic enforcement of security policies in software networks • optimization of the allocation of both network and security functions • remote attestation of virtual machines and virtual functions, docker attestation

On line synchronous mode

Written report presentation

P.D.2-2 - June