SDN - Its Security is Inevitable!
It’s time to drive the SDN wagon further ahead! In the past, we have touched upon aspects that define SDN, understood the “openflow” connection found out what would the future of this market will be like. The basic concept of SDN is that it provides centralised intelligence by separating the control panel and forwarding planes so as to manage traffic optimally and deploy services to handle changing business needs efficiently. Having learnt to get along with SDN, the next rational step is to address the big concern of any enterprise in today’s era – Security! Secure networks are crucial to all businesses, especially with the increase of migration to the cloud using the breakthrough technology - Software-Defined Networking. The concept of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), emergence of virtualised and cloud environments bring along with them risk of data exposure due to poor network security. To secure the SDN system, each component in the SDN architecture has to be secured. This will f...