P Ractical Security Analysis of O Pen F Low U Niversity of a Msterdam

OpenFlow allows network administrators to manage the behavior of their network by running a software application on a network controller device. This network element can insert dynamic control flow policies by modifying the flow tables of each switch and create interconnecting paths between the other elements of the network. Due to the fact that Software Defined Networking is a new concept promising to change the future of computer networks, there are many security aspects that need to be researched before companies start to deploy OpenFlow in large scale production and backbone networks. We focus in our experiments on practical security issues of OpenFlow. So far previous work has been pretty theoretical; we hope to get some significant results from our tests on a real world implementation.