Software Defined Networking and the Future of Network Security

This video was presented at BSidesSLC 2018 Visit https://bsidesslc.org for more information about the conference. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Software Defined Networking is no longer a fledgling technology. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and many global telecom companies all rely on the scalability, programmability, flexibility, availability, and yes, security provided by SDN. So why haven’t we heard more about it, and why isn’t the security community deeply engaged in it? This talk will provide a brief introduction to SDN and security, demonstrate ways of compromising and securing a Software Defined Network and will illustrate new ways of using the power of open source SDN coupled with machine learning to maintain self-defending networks.