Network Security against DDoS attacks using the Floodlight controller

Abstract

Nowadays, the Internet is perhaps one of the most important means to carry out movements and transactions worldwide, which determines the importance of the demanding protection of the computer systems that control all these movements, which are vulnerable to cyber threats. Among the most common attacks that exist, which make systems more vulnerable and difficult to solve, are the Distributed Denial of Service or DDos, which seeks to interrupt the operation of a service, network or website, causing the flooding of the target with a large number of malicious traffic, exhausting the resources of the affected application and without the possibility of responding to legitimate requests. The way in which this type of attacks can be faced is by performing simulations that help us to identify and analyze the vulnerability of our services with respect to DDoS attacks, in order to generate early detection and mitigation strategies. This study analyzes the implementation of a service with the Floodlight controller to prevent cyber attacks.