Factors Influencing Market Adoption and Evolution of NFV/SDN Cybersecurity Solutions. Evidence from SHIELD Project

SHIELD is an ED-funded project, targeting at the design and development of a novel cybersecurity framework, with the aim of which offers security-as-a-Service in an oevolved telco environment. The SHIELD framework leverages NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) and SDN (Software-Defined Networking) for virtualization and dynamic placement of virtualised security appliances in the network (virtual Network Security Functions - vNSFs), Big Data analytics for real-time incident detection and mitigation, as well as attestation techniques for securing both the infrastructure and the services. This paper presents a detail Roadmapping analysis and identifies the factors that will affect market adoption and the evolution of SHIELD or similar cybersecurity solutions.