Novel Cloud Intelligent Defensive System [CIDS] Against Cyber Attacks Using Penetration Testing

Abstract

Cloud application security is the most predominant issue in the present scenario of Cloud environment. Cloud application and cloud server attacks can create mayhem with the system within no time. In this paper, the consideration is towards the most vital cloud attacks that are devastating the cyber world such as DDoS, IP Spoofing, XSS (Cross Site Scripting) and SQL Injection. The proposed defensive system CIDS (Cloud based Intelligent Defensive System) is designed specifically with the goal of keeping the end user’s information Secure and providing uninterrupted Service. It monitors and controls the cloud server and the cloud applications against these cloud attacks. This defensive system is initiated by first exploiting the system to the attacks without damaging the valuable data by performing vulnerability assessment followed by penetration testing and the defensive system will safeguard cloud based services against these dreadful attacks. Keywords: Cloud Computing, Cross Site Scripting, DDoS, IP Spoofing, Penetration Testing, SQL Injection, Vulnerability Assessment