International collaboration leverages SDN for advanced cyber-attack
detection and defense
The Secure Autonomous Response programmable networks project (SARNET),
including Ciena®
(NYSE: CIEN), is exploring how software defined networking (SDN)
can help alleviate cyber-attacks and program networks to provide
enhanced cyber-terror detection and defense. SARNET utilizes a unique,
multi-purpose, high-capacity research
network and allows researchers to trial advanced network detection
and defensive functionalities that automatically reconfigure around
anomalies to help create and control agile, resilient and
high-performing architectures.
Key Facts:
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SARNET is a four year collaboration agreement between the University
of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands
Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), an
airline and Ciena to explore methods for autonomous Internet security.
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The SARNET project allows researchers to automatically create,
manipulate, move and remove network services as needed. With added
software intelligence, the network can be programmed to instantly
reconfigure, self-provision and self-heal, helping to prevent attacks,
such as denial-of-service (DOS) attacks, which have more than doubled
in the last year according to the 2015
Akamai State of the Internet security report.
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The research network leverages Ciena’s SDN-enabled 8700
Packetwave platform with multiple research laboratories, including
UvA, which is connected to Ciena’s Ottawa, Canada R&D facilities via
its OPn research network. International connectivity is
achieved via CANARIE
in Canada; Internet
2, Starlight
and ESnet
in the United States; and, SURFnet
in the Netherlands. It also includes computers and storage clouds
based on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) exoGENI
architecture.
Executive Comments:
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“SARNET exemplifies the significant transformation that future
networks need to make in order to reconfigure and self-provision
instantly. This collaboration is exploring just one of the use-cases
made possible by SDN. Autonomous Internet security would alleviate a
lot of pressure on today’s networks, freeing up resources and opening
the industry up to a raft of other innovations.”
- Cees
deLaat, University of Amsterdam, Principal Investigator, SARNET
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“Networks are becoming agile, software-enabled infrastructures, and
the ability to adapt to changing traffic patterns and bandwidth
demands is more crucial now than ever. Enabling instantaneous
responses to cyber-attacks or cyber warfare is a logical next step on
this journey, and demonstrates an important advantage of software
defined networking. With SARNET we are creating powerful new software
intelligence that can help increase the security of our digital
society.”
- Rod Wilson, Senior Director of External Research,
Ciena
Supporting Resources:
Notes
This research received funding from the Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific Research (NWO) in the framework of the Cyber Security
research program.
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