Title
DDoS/EDoS attack in cloud: affecting everyone out there!
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2799979.2800005
Security of Information and Networks
Field
DocType
Citations 
Denial-of-service attack,Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Utility computing,Web service,Energy consumption,Downtime,Application layer DDoS attack,Cloud computing,Scalability
Conference
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
23
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gaurav Somani117711.85
Manoj S. Gaur250163.38
Dheeraj Sanghi3224109.20