Title
Anonymous blockchain Based Routing For Moving-target Defense Across Federated Clouds
Abstract
Cloud federation is the evolution of modern cloud computing. It provides better resource-sharing, perfect resource-utilization, and load-balancing. However, the heterogeneity of security policies and configurations between cloud service providers makes it hard for users to totally trust them. Further, the severe impact of modern cloud attacks such as cross-side channels on federated environments is a major roadblock against such evolution. Securing users' capsules (Virtual Machines and containers) against cross-side channel attacks is considered as a big challenge to cloud service providers. Moving-target Defense (MtD) by live capsule migration was introduced as an effective mechanism to overcome such challenge. However, researchers noted that even with MtD, migrated capsules can still be tracked via routing information. In this paper, we propose a novel Blockchain-based routing mechanism to enable trace-resistant Moving-target Defence (BMtD) to enable anonymous live cross-cloud migrations of running capsules in federated cloud environments. Exploiting the Vulnerable, Exposed, Attacked, Recovered (VEAR) model, simulation results demonstrated the effectiveness of BMtD in minimizing viral attack dispersion.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/HPSR48589.2020.9098983
2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Cloud Federation,Blockchain,Moving target defense,Light Linux Virtualization
Conference
2325-5595
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-4847-2
1
0.35
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yousra Magdy110.35
Mona S. Kashkoush210.35
Mohamed Azab364.93
Mohamed R. M. Rizk410.68