Research Area: Cloud Security
Cloud computing offers users high-end and scalable infrastructure at an affordable cost. Virtualisation is the key to unlocking cloud computing. Although virtualisation has great benefits to the users, the complexity in its structure, introduces unseen and forcible threats to the security of the data and to the system infrastructure. This investigates the exploitation of compromised virtual machines to execute large-scale Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. A critical review of most recent intrusion detection and prevention systems to mitigate potential DDoS attacks is presented.
Keywords:
Cloud Computing Security
Virtualisation
Distributed Denial of Service
Intrusion Detection
Intrusion Prevention.
Author(s) Name: Andrew Carlin, Mohammad Hammoudeh, Omar Aldabbas
Journal name: Procedia Computer Science
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Publisher name: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2015.12.037
Volume Information: Volume 73, 2015, Pages 490-497
