Paper Info
Title
An Analysis Of Open Ports And Port Pairs In Ec2 Instances
Abstract
Cloud computing offers the potential for productivity, cost savings and innovation advantages to organizations. To utilize these benefits, to facilitate wide-scale cloud adoption and to embrace cloud computing, we must address many cloud security challenges. Attackers can compromise the vulnerable hosts and can either take over their resources or use them as stepping stones for future attacks. Open ports can be the most prominent gateway for many threats and potential attacks. Security communities, reports and surveys often state that port scans can be considered as precursors to an attack. In this paper, we performed an analysis pinpointing the risks of open ports in a cloud environment. We examined the problem by utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), showing that both individual and pairs of open ports on cloud servers can expose organizations to increased security risks. We discussed the security guidelines and potential best practices to address them.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/CLOUD.2017.116
2017 IEEE 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING (CLOUD)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cloud, Virtual Machine, Open Ports, Security
Port (computer networking),Best practice,Computer security,Computer science,Server,Cloud server,Default gateway,Cloud computing security,Compromise,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2159-6182
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Beaulah A. Navamani100.68
Chuan Yue222524.00
Xiaobo Zhou313510.63