Understanding and Mitigating Cloud Computing Security Attacks: A Case of DDoS

Abstract

Although cloud computing is considered the most widespread technology. Despite of what it offers, the end users still suffers many challenges, especially related to its security issues such as vulnerability to malicious attacks such as Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS), that prevents accessing the internet. This paper is design to bring understanding and ways of mitigating DDoS attacks in cloud computing environment by leveraging from the pool of diverse solutions proffered that detect and prevent such attacks from harming network communication. Keywords: Cloudflare, Firewall, Gateway, Webserver and Zombies