[Keshav Sood]

Dear Members,

I would like to start a new category for discussion, "SDN security challenges".
Security is always an issue because security measures are always consider  after launching a new technology.
I hope this new category gives benefits to research community working towards SDN security issues.

Primarily researchers focus on DDoS attacks in SDN. However, I  guess security should be understood in context of SDN architecture publically released by ONF.

Your comments are welcome.  Thanks.

[pzanna]

Hi Keshav,

Welcome to our forum.

One of things that has always bothered me was the security of the switch->controller connection. The minimal adoption of TLS and the lack of authentication makes the standard deployment model prone to man in the middle attacks and connection spoofing.

Regards,
Paul

[vincenzomangini]

hi Paul
Do you know of a controller that can be integrated with Active directory for authentication?