NetShifter: A Comprehensive Multi-Dimensional Network Obfuscation and Deception Solution

Adaptive defense is a cyber defense strategy in which a set of system configurations are dynamically changed to increase uncertainty and complexity for adversaries that try to discover and exploit vulnerabilities. To improve cyber agility of networks, the NetShifter performs multi-dimensional network-level adaptive defense in full scale beyond physical constraints of the networks by adopting the software-defined network (SDN).

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