A Novel Hybrid Security Framework (HSF) with Vshield Based Firewall to Secure Cloud Computing Environment

Abstract

Cloud Computing is an emerging technology that provides an enormous amount of computing resources which includes networks, servers and storages which are accessed through the internet. In addition it allows useful provisioning of the resources based on the user’s demands. A crucial aspect of cloud computing infrastructure is to provide secure and reliable services. The main challenge lies in the security issues is to reduce the impact of third party attacks in the cloud computing environment. Hence a novel Hybrid Security Framework(HSF) based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) Methodology with Vshield Firewall is proposed for securing the cloud environment. The RL method is used for deep packet inspection and VShiled based firewall is established to deny the attacks which are malicious when authenticating the signature of incoming packets. The bipartite pattern matching approach is integrated with the RL method to verify the signatures for obtaining the decisions quickly. The simulation results shows that the hybrid security framework is effective when compared with the existing methods by considering response time, resource utilization and denial of malicious attacks. This indicates that our proposed framework achieves not only better security but also attains better efficiency in cloud computing environment.