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One of the strongest defenses from cyber-threats today is the use of intrusion detection systems. Port scanning is usually the first action that precedes an intrusion. In turn, the use of virtual network functions (VNF) for cloud computing has become a powerful tool for tenants to provide network functions in high-speed networks. In this paper, we propose a virtual network function to detect distributed...