• Sukhmanpreet Singh
• Er. Amreen Kaur

Software Defined Networking is a network paradigm shift and is changing the network industry by revolutionizing the control plane and data plane architecture. SDN centralizes all the control plane work brining heaps of benefits as compared with traditional networks. Some challenges are also under review in this paper like SDN Security. Security is a vital part of the network and as controller is centralized in SDN, any vulnerability in the controller can results in exploitation of whole network. Security Issues like DDoS attacks on controller, malware attacks, spoofing etc. can create a havoc in the network. Snort is used as a security package to secure SDN controller from DDoS and malware detection attempts by using the rules or policies created on Snort.

Software Defined Networking, Openflow, Control Plane, Data Plane, DDOS, Malware Detection, Snort

"Securing SDN with Snort", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.73-82, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907N50.pdf

"Securing SDN with Snort", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp73-82, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907N50.pdf