Collaborative Cyber Attack Defense in SDN Networks using Blockchain Technology

Hajizadeh, Mehrdad; Afraz, Nima; Ruffini, Marco; Bauschert, Thomas

doi:10.1109/netsoft48620.2020.9165396

Cited by 25 publications

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“…Büber et al [36] proposed a voting/consensus system to add entries into a CTI database. Hajizadeh et al [37] used the blockchain to control software-defined networking (SND) systems to mitigate threats based on intelligence collaboration. In addition, Purohit et al [38] proposed the utilization of the blockchain to share intelligence to fight against threats that are targeted at cloud-based services, such as free-riding and false reporting, by defining quality metrics.…”

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Decentralized Actionable Cyber Threat Intelligence for Networks and the Internet of Things

Mena

Yang

2020

IoT

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Security presents itself as one of the biggest threats to the enabling and the deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT). Security challenges are evident in light of recent cybersecurity attacks that targeted major internet service providers and crippled a significant portion of the entire Internet by taking advantage of faulty and ill-protected embedded devices. Many of these devices reside at home networks with user-administrators who are not familiar with network security best practices, making them easy targets for the attackers. Therefore, security solutions are needed to navigate the insecure and untrusted public networks by automating protections through affordable and accessible first-hand network information sharing. This paper proposes and implements a proof of concept (PoC) to secure Internet Service Providers (ISPs), home networks, and home-based IoT devices using blockchain technologies. The results obtained support the idea of a distributed cyber threat intelligence data sharing network capable of protecting various stakeholders.

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Decentralized Actionable Cyber Threat Intelligence for Networks and the Internet of Things

Mena

Yang

2020

IoT

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“…Yeh et al [21], Yeh et al [72], Shafi et al [79] and Hajizadeh et al [77] discussed the threat information sharing including DDoS threat data among the collaborators for secure data sharing using blockchain based smart contracts technology and decentralized data storage. The Security operation centers can be upload the threat data and ISP act as verifier to confirm the illegitimacy of the threat data prior to adding to the blockchain transaction in [21], [72].…”

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“…The Ethereum based smart contract implementation for DDoS data sharing is performed for evaluation. But, in [77] and [79], the Hyperledger caliper is used to implement the threat information sharing among the organizations. Each organization may have the SDN controller to run the blockchain application and act as a blockchain node for updating the threat information in other nodes.…”

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The role of Blockchain in DDoS attacks mitigation: techniques, open challenges and future directions

Chaganti¹,

Bhushan²,

Sowmya³

2022

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With the proliferation of new technologies such as Internet of Things (IOT) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) in the recent years, the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack vector has broadened and opened new opportunities for more sophisticated DDoS attacks on the targeted victims. The new attack vector includes unsecured and vulnerable IoT devices connected to the internet, denial of service vulnerabilities like southbound channel saturation in the SDN architecture. Given the high-volume and pervasive nature of these attacks, it is beneficial for stakeholders to collaborate in detecting and mitigating the denial of service attacks in a timely manner. The blockchain technology is considered to improve the security aspects owing to the decentralized design, secured distributed storage and privacy. A thorough exploration and classification of blockchain techniques used for DDoS attack mitigation is not explored in the prior art. This paper reviews and categorizes the existed state-of-the-art DDoS mitigation solutions based on blockchain technology. The DDoS mitigation techniques are classified based on the solution deployment location i.e. network based, near attacker location, near victim location and hybrid solutions in the network architecture with emphasis on the IoT and SDN architectures. Additionally, based on our study, the research challenges and future directions to implement the blockchain based DDoS mitigation solutions are discussed. We believe that this paper could serve as a starting point and reference resource for future researchers working on denial of service attacks detection and mitigation using blockchain technology.

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“…A public permissioned blockchain tries to fill in the gaps between public permissionless and private consortium networks in order to achieve the best of both models. A cyber threat intelligence platform using open-source permissioned blockchain is discussed in [59]. The blockchain is essentially used for record-keeping, and smart contracts are used to guarantee immutable logic.…”

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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Mitigation Using Blockchain—A Comprehensive Insight

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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a major threat impeding service to legitimate requests on any network. Although the first DDoS attack was reported in 1996, the complexity and sophistication of these attacks has been ever increasing. A 2 TBps attack was reported in mid-August 2020 directed towards critical infrastructure, such as finance, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. It is estimated that these attacks will double, reaching over 15 million, in the next 2 years. A number of mitigation schemes have been designed and developed since its inception but the increasing complexity demands advanced solutions based on emerging technologies. Blockchain has emerged as a promising and viable technology for DDoS mitigation. The inherent and fundamental characteristics of blockchain such as decentralization, internal and external trustless attitude, immutability, integrity, anonymity and verifiability have proven to be strong candidates, in tackling this deadly cyber threat. This survey discusses different approaches for DDoS mitigation using blockchain in varied domains to date. The paper aims at providing a comprehensive review, highlighting all necessary details, strengths, challenges and limitations of different approaches. It is intended to serve as a single platform to understand the mechanics of current approaches to enhance research and development in the DDoS mitigation domain.

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Collaborative Cyber Attack Defense in SDN Networks using Blockchain Technology

Cited by 25 publications

References 11 publications

Decentralized Actionable Cyber Threat Intelligence for Networks and the Internet of Things

Decentralized Actionable Cyber Threat Intelligence for Networks and the Internet of Things

The role of Blockchain in DDoS attacks mitigation: techniques, open challenges and future directions

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Mitigation Using Blockchain—A Comprehensive Insight

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