Software-Defined Networking for Data Breach Prevention: A Case Study of Myspace

NIT5140 Information Security
Software-Defined Networking
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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Case study...................................................................................................................................................4
Analysis of the case study to identify reasons for Security breach issue.....................................................4
Solution.......................................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................6
Reference.....................................................................................................................................................7
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Introduction
Software-defined networking is an effective approach that is used in open protocols and cloud
computing that provides network management facilities along with the network configuration so
performance and monitoring of the network can be improved. It is also used for the security
assessment of the networks to keep the information and data safe from unauthenticated access or
data breach. Here in this report, a case study is concerned regarding Myspace which is a social
networking website. In this website, the according related information and data of the users was
stolen as some potential intruders has done data breach in this website in 2016. Due to this, a lot
of accounts are hacked and their private details are leaked online. Here in this report, software-
defined networking will be used for the security assessment of these data breach issues to
prevent these issues in future (Kreutz, et. al., 2015).
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