SHIELD - Securing against intruders and other threats through a NFV-enabled environment

Purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the motivations and technical work carried out by the EU-funded SHIELD project. This projects aims to combine Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Security-as-a-Service (SecaaS), Big Data Analytics and Trusted Computing (TC) to provide an extensible, adaptable, fast, low-cost and trustworthy cyber-security solution. Main focus will be given to the conceptual and architectural design of the cognitive Data Analytics and Remediation Engine, which has been the authors' main development task