Cloud Computing is one of the most nurtured as well as debated topic in today’s world. Billions of data of various fields ranging from personal users to large business enterprises reside in Cloud. Therefore, availability of this huge amount of data and services is of immense importance.
The DOS (Denial of Service) attack is a well-known threat to the availability of data in a smaller premise. Whenever, it’s a Cloud environment this simple DOS attack takes the form of DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. This paper provides a generic insight into the various
kinds of DOS as well as DDOS attacks. Moreover, a handful of countermeasures have also been depicted here. In a nutshell, it aims at raising an awareness by outlining a clear picture of the Cloud availability issues.Our paper gives a comparative study of different techniques of detecting
DOS.
A multi-filter feature selection in detecting distributed denial-of-service attack
