The Fifth International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SN-2018) in conjunction with the 4th IEEE NFV-SDN conference, 27 November, Verona, Italy

Scope
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) have changed the networking industry dramatically. NFV virtualizes network services by utilizing virtualization technologies to reduce the dependency on underlying hardware. NFV provides many benefits such as faster service enablement, ease of resource management and lower OPEX and CAPEX. SDN separates the control functions from the underlying physical network by decoupling the control and data planes. SDN provides many benefits such as reduced costs, ease of deployment and management, better scalability, availability, flexibility and fine-grain control of traffic and security. Like traditional networks, they are subject to various security threats and attacks. In this workshop, we invite high-quality submissions in the areas of NFV and SDN security and other related areas. Submitted papers should highlight methods and approaches that can be used to analyse the security risks and requirements, threats and techniques related to NFV and SDN and to provide novel methods and approaches to assure security in NFV and SDN.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:

Security, reliability and privacy through SDN and
NFV in 5G networks
Management and orchestration of NFV and SDN elements for security
Secure design of NFV and SDN solutions, security enablers
Security threats and vulnerabilities introduced by NFV and SDN technologies
Threat detection and mitigation through SDN and
NFV
Security policy specification and management in
SDN and NFV systems
Security related monitoring and analytics in SDN
and NFV solutions
5G security architecture, trust and confidence
Authentication, authorization and Accounting in
SDN
Secure SDN with Blockchain
Security of applying SDN to wireless and mobile network
Security of applying NFV and SDN to IoT
Security of applying NFV and SDN to cloud computing
Security of SDN API
Securing SDN infrastructure
Security architecture for SDN
Security standard of SDN
Security of SDN data plane
Security of SDN control plane
Security of SDN application plane
Security of Routing in SDN
Security of network slicing
Security as a service for SDN
SDN security using machine learning