• DocumentCode
    737945
  • Title

    The Insecurity of Cloud Utility Models

  • Author

    Idziorek, Joseph ; Tannian, Mark F. ; Jacobson, Doug

  • Author_Institution
    Iowa State University
  • Volume
    15
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2013
  • Firstpage
    22
  • Lastpage
    27
  • Abstract
    Cloud-based services are vulnerable to attacks that seek to exploit the pay-as-you-go pricing model. A botnet could perform fraudulent resource consumption (FRC) by consuming the bandwidth of Web-based services, thereby increasing the cloud consumer´s financial burden.
  • Keywords
    Bandwidth; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Computer crime; Pricing; Quality of service; Web servers; DDoS; attribution; detection; fraudulent resource consumption attack; information technology; mitigation; prevention; public cloud computing; security; utility pricing model;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    IT Professional
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1520-9202
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MITP.2012.43
  • Filename
    6178196
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=737945