Senior Design Team sddec18-07 • Software-Defined Network Moving Target Defense

About The Project

As technological advances to technology rapidly increases, we see more sophisticated cyber attacks that become harder to detect and easier to penetrate through less secure networks. Hackers spend weeks and months gathering information on corporate networks to plan out their attack, making sure that they have the right information so that their attacks will work efficiently and effectively.

Our solution consists of creating a software defined network which consists of dynamically programming where packets are directed to when they are being sent to a corporate server. By doing so we will be able to route traffic on the fly so that we can migrate, take down, or add new servers to the network without any downtime. By using a software defined network we will be able to utilize it as a moving target defense system because we can configure the network so that it could transfer any packets that may seem malicious or come from an information gathering reconnaissance and direct it to different dummy servers so that the hackers would not be able to obtain any reliable information about the network. This would result in many wasteful weeks of attempting to grab information of a constantly changing network and allowing corporate networks to be more secure because their network isn’t static anymore.