CISA advisory council report highlights security benefits of software-defined networking

The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee has unanimously approved release of a report intended to guide the Trump administration on employing software-defined networking to help improve resiliency in the nation’s information and communications technology ecosystem.

“In networking, SDN and network functions virtualization (NFV) represent an ongoing shift away from legacy technologies based upon hardware to software based networks that leverage standard, commercial off-the-shelf, or commodity-based hardware,” the report says. “This shift is structurally transforming the ICT ecosystem and allowing networks...