Zero Trust Cloud Networks using Transport Access Control and High Availability Optical Bypass Switching
Casimer M. DeCusatis, Piradon Liengtiraphan, Anthony Sager · Advances in Science Technology and Engineering Systems Journal · 2017
Cyberinfrastructure is undergoing a radical transformation as traditional enterprise and cloud computing environments hosting dynamic, mobile workloads replace telecommunication data centers.Traditional data center security best practices involving network segmentation are not well suited to these new environments.We discuss a novel network architecture, which enables an explicit zero trust approach, based on a steganographic overlay, which embeds authentication tokens in the TCP packet request, and first-packet authentication.Experimental demonstration of this approach is provided in both an enterprise-class server and cloud computing data center environment.