Abstract:
Software-defined networking is a new way of managing how computer networks
behave, it gives more ability to manage the network nodes, facilitates policies enforcement,
provides more speed in applying configurations on network nodes, it has one point of
controlling which is laying in the control plane represented by the controller which is the only
brain for the network which provides flexibility and single point of administration but, in the
same time this situation from a security point of view this could be a single point of failure so,
as restriction of the control in the network by the control plane is a good security feature, it
could also open new security challenges and here comes our research secure software-defined
networks in order to assure the security of computer networks in general.