TY - JOUR
T1 - Mitigation of cyber threats
T2 - Protection mechanisms in federated SDN/NFV infrastructures for 5G within FIRE+
AU - Gil Pérez, Manuel
AU - Huertas Celdrán, Alberto
AU - Giardina, Pietro G.
AU - Bernini, Giacomo
AU - Pizzimenti, Simone
AU - García Clemente, Félix J.
AU - Martínez Perez, Gregorio
AU - Festa, Giovanni
AU - Paglianti, Fabio
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been partially supported by a postdoctoral INCIBE grant within the ?Ayudas para la Excelencia de los Equipos de Investigaci?n Avanzada en Ciberseguridad? Program, with code INCIBEI-2015-27352; by a S?neca Foundation grant within the Human Resources Researching Postdoctoral Program 2018; by the Irish Research Council, under the government of Ireland post-doc fellowship (grant GOIPD/2018/466); the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme under grant agreement number no. 687860 - SoftFIRE (Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualisation Testbed within FIRE+); and the European Commission (FEDER/ERDF).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PY - 2021/4/10
Y1 - 2021/4/10
N2 - Cyber attacks are becoming a very common trend in existing networks, expecting to be even more acute in future 5G networks due to greater number of connected devices, higher mobile data volume, low latency, etc. Security mechanisms to tackle cyber threats should be updated when users, possibly carrying devices with some kind of malware, move in highly dynamic mobile networks in order to continue providing the same detection and mitigation capabilities along user's path. This paper presents BotsOnFIRE, an experiment of the EU H2020 SoftFIRE project for the detection and mitigation of botnets in the SoftFIRE federated testbed for 5G within FIRE+, by combining Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technologies. Bots' mobility is considered to trigger reconfiguration of security-related SDN/NFV applications, when needed, so as to update security capabilities of the SoftFIRE infrastructure. The BotsOnFIRE experiment contributes to the wider 5G objective of more secure and resilient networks and services, where botnets are actually one of the most powerful cyber threats capable of orchestrating the remote execution of cyber-attacks. Experiments confirm that BotsOnFIRE is feasible to conduct the expected detection and mitigation procedures in the SoftFIRE federated environment, being evaluated through some Key Performance Indicators.
AB - Cyber attacks are becoming a very common trend in existing networks, expecting to be even more acute in future 5G networks due to greater number of connected devices, higher mobile data volume, low latency, etc. Security mechanisms to tackle cyber threats should be updated when users, possibly carrying devices with some kind of malware, move in highly dynamic mobile networks in order to continue providing the same detection and mitigation capabilities along user's path. This paper presents BotsOnFIRE, an experiment of the EU H2020 SoftFIRE project for the detection and mitigation of botnets in the SoftFIRE federated testbed for 5G within FIRE+, by combining Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technologies. Bots' mobility is considered to trigger reconfiguration of security-related SDN/NFV applications, when needed, so as to update security capabilities of the SoftFIRE infrastructure. The BotsOnFIRE experiment contributes to the wider 5G objective of more secure and resilient networks and services, where botnets are actually one of the most powerful cyber threats capable of orchestrating the remote execution of cyber-attacks. Experiments confirm that BotsOnFIRE is feasible to conduct the expected detection and mitigation procedures in the SoftFIRE federated environment, being evaluated through some Key Performance Indicators.
KW - botnets
KW - cybersecurity
KW - FIRE+ infrastructure
KW - NFV
KW - reconfiguration
KW - SDN
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U2 - 10.1002/cpe.5132
DO - 10.1002/cpe.5132
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85059659602
SN - 1532-0626
VL - 33
SP - 1
JO - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
JF - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
IS - 7
ER -