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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111060
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Secure Software Defined Networks Controller Storage using Intel Software Guard Extensions

Author 1: Qasmaoui Youssef
Author 2: Maleh Yassine
Author 3: Abdelkrim Haqiq

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 11 Issue 10, 2020.

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Abstract: The SDN controller is the core of the software-defined network (SDN), which provides important network operations that needs to be protected from all type of threats. Many researches have been focusing on different layers of security regarding the SDN controller such as Anti-DDOS system or enforcement of TLS connection between the controller and the Open-vswitches. One of the major security threats targeting any program is the environment execution itself (e.g. Operating system and the hardware itself). Intel's Software Guard Extension (SGX) offers a sloid layer of security applied to applications by creating a Trusted execution environment. SDN controller relay on a storage module to keep sensitive data such as Flow Rules, users’ credentials and configuration files. Protecting this side of the SDN controller is a must in term of security. To date, no work has been conducted considering SDN controller storage security using Intel SGX. This paper introduces an SGX enabled SDN controller. The new controller ensures the integrity and the confidentiality in a trusted execution environment by leveraging a recent hardware technology called intel SGX. This technology provides a trusted and secure enclave. Enclaves are sealed and unsealed by intel SGX attestation mechanisms to protect the executed code and data inside live memory and disk from being altered by any unauthorized access. High privileged codes such as the OS itself is kept from altering data inside enclaves. We implemented the Intel SGX using the Floodlight SDN controller running a real enabled Intel SGX hardware. Our evaluation shows that the SGX enabled SDN controller introduces a slightly observable performance overhead to the floodlight controller compared to advantages in term of security.

Keywords: Software defined networks; software guard extensions; storage; integrity; confidentiality

Qasmaoui Youssef, Maleh Yassine and Abdelkrim Haqiq, “Secure Software Defined Networks Controller Storage using Intel Software Guard Extensions” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 11(10), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111060

@article{Youssef2020,
title = {Secure Software Defined Networks Controller Storage using Intel Software Guard Extensions},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111060},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111060},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {11},
number = {10},
author = {Qasmaoui Youssef and Maleh Yassine and Abdelkrim Haqiq}
}



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