SHIELD: Securing Against Intruders and Other Threats Through an NFV-Enabled Environment

Organisations are witnessing an unprecedented escalation of cyber-crime attacks and struggle to protect against them. Rethinking security is required to cope with numerous new challenges arising today: the sophistication of new attacks, the increasing weakness of traditional security controls, the explosion of data to be collected and analysed to detect threats and the ongoing transformation of IT – such as virtualisation and cloud computing.