Software-defined networking and security : from theory to practice / Dijiang Huang, Ankur Chowdhary and Sandeep Pisharody.

"This book seeks to educate the reader regarding Cyber Maneuver or Adaptive Cyber Defense. Before implementing proactive cyber defense techniques, or Moving Target Defense schemes, it's important to analyze the threats, detect attacks, and implement countermeasures, while still preserving user experience. This book discusses how to detect multi-stage attack. It presents a comparative study of methods and solutions. It covers modern computing paradigms such as Software-Defined Networks and Network Functions Virtualization (SDN-NFV), and their effectiveness in implementing Moving Target Defense responses. Source codes, online labs, and exercises are available at the author's university website"-- Provided by publisher.