Network Programming and Probabilistic Sketching for Securing the Data Plane
Joint Authors
Chehab, Ali
Kayssi, Ayman
Shamseddine, Maha
Itani, Wassim
Source
Security and Communication Networks
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-23, 23 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-06-28
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
23
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
This paper presents VISKA, a cloud security service for dynamically detecting malicious switching elements in software defined networking (SDN) infrastructures.
The main contributions of VISKA lie in (1) utilizing network programming and secure probabilistic sketching in SDN environments to dynamically detect and isolate parts of the data plane that experience malicious behavior, (2) applying a set of focused packet probing and sketching mechanisms on isolated network partitions/views rather than focusing the security mechanisms on the whole physical network, (3) efficiently analyzing the network behavior of the resulting views by recursively partitioning them in a divide-and-conquer fashion to logarithmically reduce the problem size in order to localize abnormal/malicious switching units, and (4) providing an attack categorization module that analyzes live ingress/egress traffic of the maliciously detected switch(es) solely to identify the specific type of attack, rather than inspecting the whole network traffic as is done in traditional intrusion detection systems.
This significantly enhances the performance of attack detection and reduces the load on the controller.
A testbed prototype implementation is realized on the Mininet network emulator.
The experimental analysis corroborated the algorithms’ convergence property using the linear and FatTree topologies with network sizes of up to 250 switches.
Moreover, an implementation of the attack categorization module is realized and achieved an accuracy rate of over 90% for the different attack types supported.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Shamseddine, Maha& Itani, Wassim& Chehab, Ali& Kayssi, Ayman. 2018. Network Programming and Probabilistic Sketching for Securing the Data Plane. Security and Communication Networks،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-23.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214030
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Shamseddine, Maha…[et al.]. Network Programming and Probabilistic Sketching for Securing the Data Plane. Security and Communication Networks No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-23.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214030
American Medical Association (AMA)
Shamseddine, Maha& Itani, Wassim& Chehab, Ali& Kayssi, Ayman. Network Programming and Probabilistic Sketching for Securing the Data Plane. Security and Communication Networks. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-23.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214030
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1214030