Relationship between DOS Attacks and My Cloud Invoice – Cloud Computing

Relationship between DOS Attacks and My Cloud Invoice

The proposal for my final project is on the Relationship between DOS attacks and my Cloud Invoice. Before proceeding to finer details, it is critical to have an understanding of keywords that make up the topic/subject of my proposal, particularly the DOS attacks and Cloud invoice. DOS stands for Denial of Service; hence DOS attack refers to a cybercrime attack that aims at interfering with cloud-computing resources from rendering its regular services for a certain period or ultimately preventing the provisioning of cloud computing services (Arora et al., 2018). On the other hand, a cloud invoice refers to an online platform that allows a customer to decide when to make, how to create, and where to make the payments (Chhabra, & Dixit, 2015).
When looking at the current computing models that have traversed most corners in this world, the security issues related to DOS remains one of the key stumbling blocks to its use (Hussein & Khalid, 2016). Many individuals have become victims of receiving exaggerated bills due to masterminding plans from IT experts engaging in cybercrime activities (Somani et al., 2017). Therefore, this research proposal forms a reasonable basis for establishing the interconnection between DOS attacks and cloud invoicing. Through a comprehensive analysis of finer details, my peers will be in a better position to understand the several contexts and security underpinnings that underlie the DOS attacks and cloud invoice and how to develop resilience against them. 

According to Ramachandra and his colleagues, “It is a commonly accepted fact that since 2008, the cloud is a viable hosting platform; however, the perception with respect to security in the cloud is that it needs significant improvements to realize higher rates of adaption in the enterprise scale” (Ramachandra et al., 2017). Nowadays, it is typical to find instances of billing damage in multiple cloud invoices (Osanaiye et al., 2016). What is apparent in such cases is the interconnection between the high costs incurred and the use of the cloud services (Hussein & Khalid, 2016). According to Osanaiye et al. (2016), a DOS attack can tremendously result in a customer being issued with an exorbitant bill from the cloud service providers.
According to Somani et al. (2017), “Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are serious threats to the Cloud services’ availability due to numerous new vulnerabilities introduced by the nature of the Cloud, such as multi-tenancy and resource sharing.” From the cloud’s elasticity context, the full range of scale provides several resources that are essential in meeting one’s own needs, such as storage (Ferriman et al., 2015). The multiple resources in the cloud make it possible for attackers to target specific aspects of the cloud, such as network, which in turn demands an increment in the resources to meet up the high volume (De Donno, 2019). 
The responsibility of selecting an appropriate mitigation service that is accurately configured and activated squarely lies in the hand of the customer (Osonaiye et al., 2016). It is also significant that the cloud service providers institute built-in security services that can offer resilience against DOS attacks (Arora et al., 2018). “Accurate auto-scaling decisions, multi-layer mitigation, and defense using profound resources in the cloud are some of the key requirements of the desired solutions” (Bonguet & Bellaiche, 2017).

References

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Bonguet, A., & Bellaiche, M. (2017). A survey of denial-of-service and distributed denial of service attacks and defenses in cloud computing. Future Internet, 9(3), 43.

Chhabra, S., & Dixit, V. S. (2015). Cloud computing: State of the art and security issues. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 40(2), 1-11.

De Donno, M., Giaretta, A., Dragoni, N., Bucchiarone, A., & Mazzara, M. (2019). Cyber-storms come from clouds: Security of cloud computing in the IoT era. Future Internet, 11(6), 127.

Ferriman, B., Hamed, T., & Mahmoud, Q. H. (2015, February). Storming the cloud: A look at denial of service in the Google App Engine. In 2015 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) (pp. 363-368). IEEE.

Hussein, N. H., & Khalid, A. (2016). A survey of Cloud Computing Security challenges and solutions. International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, 14(1), 52.

Osanaiye, O., Choo, K. K. R., & Dlodlo, M. (2016). Distributed denial of service (DDoS) resilience in cloud: Review and conceptual cloud DDoS mitigation framework. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 67, 147-165.

Somani, G., Gaur, M. S., Sanghi, D., Conti, M., & Buyya, R. (2017). DDoS attacks in cloud computing: Issues, taxonomy, and future directions. Computer Communications, 107, 30-48

Ramachandra, G., Iftikhar, M., & Khan, F. A. (2017). A comprehensive survey on security in cloud computing. Procedia Computer Science, 110, 465-472.