Attribution of Economic Denial of Sustainability Attacks in Public Clouds

Mohammad Karami,An Wang,Songqing Chen

doi:10.4108/eai.4-1-2018.153525

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https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.4-1-2018.153525

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Attribution of Economic Denial of Sustainability Attacks in Public Clouds

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IntroductionCloud computing is reshaping the entire information technology industry
As a new paradigm, cloud computing is reshaping the entire information technology industry
This pricing model exposes the cloud consumers to Economic Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) attacks where the adversary seeks to increase the financial burden of the victim service by making fraudulent requests that result in high consumption of billable resources

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Cloud computing is reshaping the entire information technology industry. Cloud service providers enable their consumers to access shared computing resources in a flexible way without the need for upfront investment on infrastructure, platform, and software. The adoption of cloud computing has experienced significant growth in recent years, some concerns regarding the unique features of cloud computing environments have hindered its broader adoption. Security and privacy concerns in particular are frequently ranked as one of the top reasons why some organizations are reluctant to adopt cloud computing [5, 26, 27]. The understanding and mitigation of security and privacy risks of the public cloud computing model has been an active area of research in recent years. Very little attention has been paid to security threats targeting the cost model of consumers running their services on the public cloud [11]

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