SHIELD - Securing against Intruders and Other Threats Through a NFV-Enabled Environment

The SHIELD project proposes a universal solution for dynamically establishing and deploying virtual security infrastructures into ISP and corporate networks. SHIELD builds on the huge momentum of Network Functions Virtualisation(NFV), as currently standardised by ETSI, in order to virtualise security appliances intovirtual Network Security Functions (vNSFs), to be instantiated within the network infrastructure using NFV technologies and concepts, effectively monitoring and filtering network traffic in a distributed manner.