Availability challenge of cloud system under DDOS attack

Aboosaleh Mohammad Sharifi

doi:10.17485/ijst/2012/v5i6.21

Abstract

Cloud computing is a distributed architecture that has shared resources, software, and information is provided to computers and other devices on a scalable platform and demand. Availability of the cloud services is one of the key security issues in it. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an attack that threats the availability of the cloud services. In this paper, effect of the DDoS attack on the cloud is investigated. Therefore, a model for attack based on the DDoS is designed, and then we simulate a cloud system on the experimental environment. Experiments show that the cloud system is vulnerable to this attack. In order to confronting this attack, several solutions are proposed in this paper. We suggest load balancing and honeypots beside the intrusion detection systems (IDS) is used to defend from the attack. Keywords. Cloud, DDoS Attack, IDS, Honeypot, Load Balancing.

Highlights

S is designed, and we simulate a cloud system on the experimental environment
We suggest load balancing and honeypots beside the intrusion detection systems (IDS) is used to defend from the attack
We have tried to increase the accuracy of the results by implmenting a clever Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the cloud system, in order to the IDS could not detect an attack

Summary

Introduction

S is designed, and we simulate a cloud system on the experimental environment. Experiments show that the cloud system is vulnerable to this attack. The availability is the customer uses the cloud as software which is hosted in the cloud, networks as a services at any time and in anywhere The challenge of availability of the cloud system cloud provides web space to users for storing their data, can be referred to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

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