DDoS attacks and impacts on various cloud computing components

Authors : Fadi SHAAR, Ahmet EFE
Pages : 26-48
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Publication Date : 2018-03-01
Article Type : Research Paper
Abstract :Cloud computing is the subject of the era and is the current keen domain of interest of organizations. Therefore, the future outlook of this technology is optimisticly considered to be widely adapted in this domain. On the other hand, moving to cloud computing paradigm, new security mechanism and defense frameworks are being developed against all threats and malicious network attacks that threaten the service availability of cloud computing for continuity of public and private services. Considering the increasing usage of cloud services by government bodies poses an emerging threat to e-government and e-governance structures and continuity of public services of national and local government bodies. IoT, industry 4.0, smart cities and novel artificial intelligence applications that require devices to be connected and ever present cloud platforms, provide an increasing wide range of potential zombie armies to be used in Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks which are omongst the most critical attacks under cloud computing environment. In this survey, we have introduced the recent reports and trends of this attack and its effects on the service availability on various cloud components. Furthermore, we discuss in detail the classification of DDoS attacks threatening the cloud computing components and make analysis and assessments on the emerging usage of cloud infrastructures that poses both advantages and risks. We assert that considering various kinds of DDoS attack tools, proactive capabilities, virtual connecting infrastructures and innovative methods which are being developed by attackers very rapidly for compromising and halting cloud systems, it is of crucial importance for cyber security strategies of both national, central and local government bodies to consider pertinent preemptive countermeasures periodically and revise their cyber strategies and action plans dynamically.
Keywords : Cloud Computing, Service availability, DDoS, Malicious network attacks, E government Security

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