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Enabling Defensive Deception by Leveraging Software Defined Networks

Authors:
Ilias Belalis
Georgios Kavallieratos
Vasileios Gkioulos
Georgios Spathoulas

Keywords: network security, SDN, deception, defense, moving target, honeypots

Abstract:
Computer networks are critical for modern society and protecting their security is of high importance. Due to their increasing size and complexity providing the required cyber security counter measures has become a very difficult task. One of the most recent approaches is to employ defensive deception techniques, in order to provide to the attacker a false perception about the protected network and thus increase the effort that is needed to carry on a successful intrusion. In this paper we present a comprehensive literature review and a comparison of existing SDN based defensive deception methods. Additionally, we propose a novel deception mechanism that combines moving target and honeypots approaches and carry out extensive tests of its functionality.

Pages: 7 to 16

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: October 18, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-443X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-796-2

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from October 18, 2020 to October 22, 2020