End-to-End Security Enforcement on Packet and Optical Transport Providers in Untrustworthy Multi-stakeholder Scenario

This article presents a new service and security orchestration solution focused assisting the operators and security providers to achieve a trust-based relationship in the multi-stakeholder scenario. The solution called Open Security & Trust Orchestration (OpenSEC), allows to register through Blockchain the relationships between one operator and all its possible security providers, to monitor the security providers and their security service and, when necessary, to punish or prize them based on their performance.