Design of a Security Service Orchestration Framework for NFV

Network functions virtualization (NFV) emerges as a promising network architecture that separates network functions from proprietary devices. NFV lowers the cost of hardware components and enables fast and flexible deployment of network services. Despite these advantages, NFV introduces new security challenges. Currently, there is little research on a holistic framework to solve these security issues. In this paper, we propose a security service orchestration framework that can construct a cooperative working mechanism for NFV security. We present the demand analysis and describe the system design principles and implementation details. We propose a lightweight holistic architecture design of the security service orchestration system to solve current security issues. The system’s effectiveness is also shown based on technical review.