Secure Cloud Computing Environment Against DDos and EDos Attacks

Cloud computing is becoming one of the fastest growing field in the information technology. Cloud computing allows us to scale our servers in magnitude and availability in order to provide service to greater number of end users. Moreover, cloud service model are charged based on a pay-per-use basis of the cloud’s server and network resource. In cloud computing where infrastructure is shared by potentially millions of users, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have the potential to have much greater impact than against single tenanted architectures. With this model, a conventional DDoS attack on server and network resources is transformed in a cloud environment to a new breed of attack that targets the cloud user’s economic resource, namely Economic Denial of Service attacks. In this paper, we propose a novel solution, named DDoS and EDoSShield, to avoid the Denial of service and Economic Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) attack in the cloud computing systems.