Paper Info
Title
BitDeposit: Deterring Attacks and Abuses of Cloud Computing Services through Economic Measures
Abstract
Dependability in cloud computing applications can be negatively affected by various attacks or service abuses. To come ahead of this threat, we propose an economic measure to deter attacks and various service abuses in cloud computing applications. Our proposed defense is based on requiring a service user to pay a small deposit, using digital currency, before invoking the service. Once they are done using the service, and there has been no detected abuse or attack, the deposit is paid back by the service provider to the service user. If an attack or an abuse is detected, the service user is not paid back and the service provider gets to keep the deposit. We propose the use of micro payments with a decentralized nature and small transaction fees, such as the Bit coin digital currency. Moreover, thanks to the existence of money exchanges which convert the Bit coin currency to real world currency, service providers can recoup loses when they exchange the confiscated deposits for real world currency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/CCGrid.2013.102
Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
cloud computing,economics,electronic money,security of data,BitDeposit,bit coin currency,cloud computing applications,cloud computing services,decentralized nature,digital currency,economic measures,micro payments,real world currency,service user,small transaction fees,Bitcoin,attack deterrence,cloud computing,digital and real world money exchanges,digital currency
Electronic money,Digital currency,World currency,Computer security,Service provider,Virtual currency,Payment,Currency,Business,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2376-4414
978-1-4673-6465-2
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.89
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jakub Szefer139837.00
Ruby Lee22460261.28