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DDoS/EDoS attack in cloud: affecting everyone out there!

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Manoj Singh Gaur,

Dheeraj SanghiAuthors Info & Claims

SIN '15: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks

Pages 169 - 176

https://doi.org/10.1145/2799979.2800005

Published: 08 September 2015 Publication History

Abstract

DDoS attacks have become fatal attacks in recent times. There are large number of incidents which have been reported recently and caused heavy downtime and economic losses. Evolution of utility computing models like cloud computing and its adoption across enterprises is visible due to many promising features. Effects of DDoS attacks in cloud are no more similar to what they were in traditional fixed or on premise infrastructure. In addition to effects on the service, economic or sustainability effects are significant in the form of Economic Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) attacks. We argue that in a multi-tenant public cloud, multiple stakeholders are involved other than the victim server. Some of these important stakeholders are co-hosted virtual servers, physical server(s), network and, cloud service providers. We have shown through system analysis, experiments and simulations that these stakeholders are indeed affected though they are not the actual targets. Effects to other stakeholders include performance interference, web service performance, resource race, indirect EDoS, downtime and, business losses. Cloud scale simulations have revealed that overall energy consumption and no. of VM migrations are adversely affected due to DDoS/EDoS attacks. Losses to these stakeholders should be properly accounted and there is a need to devise methods to isolate these components well.

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SIN '15: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks

September 2015

350 pages

ISBN:9781450334532

DOI:10.1145/2799979

Conference Chairs:
Oleg Makarevich
Southern Federal University, Russia
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Ron Poet
University of Glasgow, UK
,
Atilla Elçi
Aksaray University, Turkey
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Manoj Singh Gaur
Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India
,
Mehmet Orgun
Macquarie University, Australia
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Program Chairs:
Ludmila Babenko
Southern Federal University, Russia
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Sadek Ferdous
University of Glasgow, UK
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Anthony T. S. Ho
University of Surrey, UK
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Vijay Laxmi
Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India
,
Josef Pieprzyk
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

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