IDS Based Defense for Cloud Based Mobile Infrastructure as a Service

Cloud Computing has emerged as one of the rapidly growing technology. Cloud has gained popularity owing to its advantages like cost-effectiveness, pay per use, scalability and ease to upgrade. In spite of all these benefits, the risk of security is preventing many organizations to adopt cloud environment. Unless cloud become resilient to the security threats owing to the change in the computing environment, it is impossible to get the full benefit of cloud. Switching to new computing environment has added different aspects to security besides the security threats present the traditional computing environment. Hence there is a need of different security framework in order to make cloud resistant to various security threats. This paper presents an IDS framework for cloud to provide security from the IaaS based attacks. The IDS has got two separate modules for network based attacks and host based attacks. This paper discusses the prototype of the framework and evaluation of the framework.