Paper Title
Future Challenges Addressing NFV Security and Survivability
Abstract
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging technology that strives to reduce Operational (OpEx)
and Capital (CaPex) Expenses. Its idea is to decouple network functions from proprietary physical devices, facilitating
implementation, administration and upgrades. This technology is still under standardization, and companies that shall
leverage from it pose concerns regarding several NFV topics, namely standards, performance, available tools, management
and, specially security. In this paper, a survey is driven in order to classify reported studies and projects that
are being performed on NFV. Such works are classified according the European Telecommunication Standards Institute
standards on NFV. Although some research projects are being done, we show concerns regarding NFV topics are justified
due to the lack of inspection, specially on NFV security areas, namely, surity on infrastructure virtualization, security on
management and orchestration systems, and also analysis of survivability and disaster recovery schemes.
Keywords - Network Function Virtualization, security, survivability