Software Defined Membrane: Policy-Driven Edge and Internet of Things Security
Massimo Villari, Maria Carolina Fazio, Schahram Dustdar, OMER F. RANA, Lydia Y. Chen, Rajiv Kumar Ranjan · IEEE Cloud Computing · 2017
We describe the integration of security strategy as a programmatic “Security Software Defined Membrane”, to enable optimal migration of microservices and their data (referred to as MELs), between Edge and Cloud resources. The SDMem is configured based on a security policy informed by an “attacker model”-this involves a user or security analyst specifying potential attack types and resources that will be impacted. In this work, we focus on security concerns rooted in devices and the network between them. The approach advocated here can be adapted based on changes in the type of Edge and/or IoT device being considered.