Mitigation of Cloud-Internal Denial of Service Attacks

Author

Alarifi, Suaad ; Wolthusen, Stephen D.

Author_Institution

Inf. Security Group, Univ. of London, Egham, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

7-11 April 2014

Firstpage

478

Lastpage

483

Abstract

Cloud computing security is one of the main concerns preventing the adoption of the cloud by many organisations. This paper introduces mitigation strategies to defend the cloud specific CIDoS class of attacks (Cloud-Internal Denial of Service), presented in [1]. The mitigation approaches are based on techniques used in signals processing field. The main strategy to detect the attack is the calculation of correlations measurement and distances between attackers workload patters, we use DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) to accomplish this task. This paper also suggests some prevention and response strategies.

Keywords

cloud computing; computer network security; discrete cosine transforms; CIDoS class; DCT; attack detection; cloud computing security; cloud-internal denial of service attack mitigation; correlations measurement; discrete cosine transform; mitigation strategies; prevention strategy; response strategy; signals processing field; Computer crime; Correlation; Delays; Discrete cosine transforms; Educational institutions; Monitoring; Testing; CIDoS attack detection; Cloud Attack Mitigation; Cloud Computing Security; Cloud DoS attacks; IaaS Cloud Security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), 2014 IEEE 8th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Oxford

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOSE.2014.71

Filename

6830952