<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Cybersecurity attacks resulting in loss of availability of cloud services can have significantly higher impact than those in the traditional stand-alone enterprise setups. Therefore, availability attacks, such as Denial of Service attacks (DoS); Distributed DoS attacks (DDoS) and Economical Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) attacks receive increasingly more attention. This paper surveys existing DDoS attacks analyzing the principles, ways of launching and their variants. Then, current mitigation systems are critically discussed. Based on the identification of the weak points, the paper proposes a new mitigation system named as DDoS-Mitigation System (DDoS-MS) that attempts to overcome the identified gap. The proposed framework is evaluated, and an enhanced version of the proposed system called Enhanced DDoS-MS is presented. In the end, the paper presents some future directions of the proposed framework.</p></abstract>

Cybersecurity attacks resulting in loss of availability of cloud services can have significantly higher impact than those in the traditional stand-alone enterprise setups. Therefore, availability attacks, such as Denial of Service attacks (DoS); Distributed DoS attacks (DDoS) and Economical Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) attacks receive increasingly more attention. This paper surveys existing DDoS attacks analyzing the principles, ways of launching and their variants. Then, current mitigation systems are critically discussed. Based on the identification of the weak points, the paper proposes a new mitigation system named as DDoS-Mitigation System (DDoS-MS) that attempts to overcome the identified gap. The proposed framework is evaluated, and an enhanced version of the proposed system called Enhanced DDoS-MS is presented. In the end, the paper presents some future directions of the proposed framework.

Mitigation of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in the Cloud

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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Cybersecurity attacks resulting in loss of availability of cloud services can have significantly higher impact than those in the traditional stand-alone...

Mitigation of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in the Cloud

Published Online: Nov 30, 2017

Page range: 32 - 51

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2017-0040

Keywords
Information processes, cloud computing, security, denial of service, distributed denial of service attacks, economical denial of sustainability

© by Wael Alosaimi

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mitigation of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in the Cloud

Published Online: Nov 30, 2017

Page range: 32 - 51

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2017-0040

KeywordsInformation processes, cloud computing, security, denial of service, distributed denial of service attacks, economical denial of sustainability

© by Wael Alosaimi

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Information processes, cloud computing, security, denial of service, distributed denial of service attacks, economical denial of sustainability