Analysis of NFV risks and protection concerns

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Abstract: Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is the basic technology of future telecom networking and the trend for network evolution. As this technology is becoming mature and the 5G era is coming, NFV will be provisioned on a large scale in the near future. This article introduces the advantages of NFV technology and its trend of deployment as well, and also analyses its risks from NFV’s 5 key components: infrastructure layer, Hypervisor, VM, VNF layer and MANO. In order to mitigate these risks, this article has proposed some key security technologies and measures.

Key words: NFV, security, VM, Hypervisor

WU Hongjian, ZHANG Ruyi, LU Yue. Analysis of NFV risks and protection concerns[J]. Information and Communications Technology and Policy, 2018, 44(11): 68-72.

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