Defense schemes for variants of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in cloud computing: A survey. Issue 2 (4th March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Agrawal, Neha; Tapaswi, Shashikala
• Is Part Of: Information security journal. Volume 26:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 61
• Page End: 73
• Publication Date: 2017-03-04
• Subjects: Availability -- cloudcomputing security -- distributed denial-of-service attack -- economicdenial-of-sustainability attack -- low-rate traffic; Computer security -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing departments -- Security measures -- Periodicals; 005.805
• DOI: 10.1080/19393555.2017.1282995
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1939-3555

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Cloud computing is a fast-growing and promising technology segment that aims to reduce maintenance and management costs by shifting high-quality computing infrastructure to the Internet. It is emerging as a dominant technology because it provides an on-demand, self-service, scalable, and pay-per-use business model. Despite its numerous benefits, it suffers from several security challenges. As a consequence of on-demand service, availability of computing resources is the crucial attribute of cloud computing among security necessities. In this work, a survey is presented on various issues related to the availability of resources in a cloud environment. Ensuring availability and security of computing/storage resources are still challenging tasks. The adversary class readily exploits the vulnerabilities in the cloud infrastructure for attack implementation. The article presents a study of various categories of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in cloud computing and their defense mechanisms. It is believed that this is the first work which surveys all varieties of DDoS attacks in the cloud environment.