Summary

Recommendation ITU-T X.1046 specifies a framework of software-defined security in software-defined networks (SDNs) and the network functions virtualization (NFV) networks. This framework utilizes key advantages of SDN/NFV technologies such as on-demand capacity scale-in/scale-out, dynamic and intelligent security policy control regarding real-time network status, separated deployment of control layer and data forwarding layer, full view of traffic for monitoring and unified security policy setting.