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====== Moon OPNFV Security Management System ======

  * Proposed name for the project: Moon OPNFV Security Management System
  * Proposed name for the repository: moon
  * Project Categories: Collaborative Development

===== Project description =====

This project proposes a security management system called Moon. NFV uses cloud computing technologies to virtualize the resources and automate the control. 
The cloud infrastructure is able to provision a set of different cloud resources/services for VNFs (Virtualized Network Functions). 
Management of isolation and protection of, and interaction between, these VNFs become a big challenge. In order to avoid losing control over the VNFs in the cloud, Moon aims at designing and developing a security management system for OPNFV. 
We can create security managers to protect different layers of the NFV infrastructure, and choose various security project mechanisms “a la cart” to enforcement related security managers.
A security management system integrates mechanisms of different security aspects. This project will firstly propose security manager that specifies users’ security requirements. 
It will also enforce the security managers through various mechanisms like authorization for access control, firewall for networking, isolation for storage, logging for tractability, etc.  
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===== Scope =====

This project works on a security management system to monitor, control and manage VNFs based on the OpenStack infrastructure:

  * **Architecture**: The security management system can be considered as a management layer over the NFV/OpenStack infrastructure. Users can dynamically create security modules and assign these modules to protect different VNF instances which are regrouped into tenants.

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  * **Project mechanisms**: Moon proposes a dynamic solution to project each tenant. We will also propose different protection mechanisms to enrich the project catalog:
     * Authorization: the first step is to enforce the authorization mechanism. All user operations are controlled and validated the authorization enforcement based on the security module. 
     * Logging: tractability and accountability will also be handled, operations of each VNF and interactions between VNFs are logged and can be retrieved for any purpose.
     * Intrusion Detection System: runtime monitoring is another important issue as the telecommunication network asks for a highly availability. 
     * Networking enforcement: an important improvement is to enable network project by the security management system. Based on the defined policy, this system will configure Neutron, FWaaS, etc. 
     * Storage enforcement: storage protection being another important aspect, access to storage blocks or files will be controlled by Moon. 
     * Other protections mechanism can also be completed to this security management system
The first draft code of moon is available over:
[[https://github.com/rebirthmonkey/moon|Moon Github]]

  * **Relations with other ongoing projects**
    *    Moon vs. OpenStack/Keystone: Moon is based on Keystone, the next release of Moon will be built as a new API (backend service) for Keystone. In the near future, we also want to upstream Moon to Keystone as its authorization solution. 
    *   Moon vs. OpenStack/Congress, OPNFV/Copper: As a security management system, Moon uses security policies and enforces them through various protection mechanisms. However, Moon doesn’t create by itself a new policy engine. It is designed to support different policies engines. Currently, a project in Moon is ongoing to aliment Congress as one of Moon’s policy engines. So, Moon can also support OPNFV/Copper policy engine in the future.
    *   Moon and European H2020 Project SuperCloud: The H2020 project SUPERCLOUD proposes new security and dependability management paradigms for multi-cloud infrastructures. It will notably provide a set of open source security enforcement mechanisms to protect the cloud infrastructure. These security mechanisms will be integrated with Moon to extend the protection scope to intrusion detection, usage supervision, or data protection.

===== Documentation =====

  * Functional Architecture 


===== Committers and Contributors =====

  * Ruan HE (ruan.he@orange.com) 
  * Jamil CHAWKI (jamil.chawki@orange.com)
  * Loic LAGADEC (loic.lagadec@ensta-bretagne.fr)
  * Ashutosh Dutta (ad5939@att.com)

  
===== Testing =====
Test suite for continuous integration will be developped.


===== Planned Deliverable =====
In the first release we will provide a light-weight security management with only authorization, log as protection mechanisms for all the created VNFs and the whole infrastructure. 


===== Proposed Release Schedule: =====

 Moon OPNFV Rel 2 timeframe: 2S 2015
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