scholarly journals SOFT COMPUTING BASED AUTONOMOUS LOW RATE DDOS ATTACK DETECTION AND SECURITY FOR CLOUD COMPUTING

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mugunthan S. R.
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Soft Computing ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Ddos Attacks ◽  
Counter Measures ◽  
Cloud Architecture ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection ◽  
Low Rate

The fundamental advantage of the cloud environment is its instant scalability in rendering the service according to the various demands. The recent technological growth in the cloud computing makes it accessible to people from everywhere at any time. Multitudes of user utilizes the cloud platform for their various needs and store their complete details that are personnel as well as confidential in the cloud architecture. The storage of the confidential information makes the cloud architecture attractive to its hackers, who aim in misusing the confidential/secret information’s. The misuse of the services and the resources of the cloud architecture has become a common issue in the day to day usage due to the DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks. The DDOS attacks are highly mature and continue to grow at a high speed making the detecting and the counter measures a challenging task. So the paper uses the soft computing based autonomous detection for the Low rate-DDOS attacks in the cloud architecture. The proposed method utilizes the hidden Markov Model for observing the flow in the network and the Random forest in classifying the detected attacks from the normal flow. The proffered method is evaluated to measure the performance improvement attained in terms of the Recall, Precision, specificity, accuracy and F-measure.

scholarly journals Information Theory-based Approaches to Detect DDoS Attacks on Software-defined Networking Controller a Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Mohammad A. Aladaileh ◽  
Mohammed Anbar ◽  
Iznan H. Hasbullah ◽  
Yousef K. Sanjalawe
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Software Defined Networking ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Ddos Attacks ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection ◽  
Low Rate

The number of network users and devices has exponentially increased in the last few decades, giving rise to sophisticated security threats while processing users’ and devices’ network data. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) introduces many new features, but none is more revolutionary than separating the control plane from the data plane. The separation helps DDoS attack detection mechanisms by introducing novel features and functionalities. Since the controller is the most critical part of the SDN network, its ability to control and monitor network traffic flow behavior ensures the network functions properly and smoothly. However, the controller’s importance to the SDN network makes it an attractive target for attackers. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one of the major threats to network security. This paper presents a comprehensive review of information theory-based approaches to detect low-rate and high-rate DDoS attacks on SDN controllers. Additionally, this paper provides a qualitative comparison between this work and the existing reviews on DDoS attack detection approaches using various metrics to highlight this work’s uniqueness. Moreover, this paper provides in-depth discussion and insight into the existing DDoS attack detection approaches to point out their weaknesses that open the avenue for future research directions. Meanwhile, the finding of this paper can be used by other researchers to propose a new or enhanced approach to protect SDN controllers from the threats of DDoS attacks by accurately detecting both low-rate and high-rate DDoS attacks.

scholarly journals Low-Rate DDoS Attack Detection Using Expectation of Packet Size

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Zhou ◽  
Mingchao Liao ◽  
Cao Yuan ◽  
Haoyu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Denial Of Service ◽  
False Negative ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Detection Sensitivity ◽  
Distributed Denial Of Service ◽  
Ddos Attacks ◽  
Packet Size ◽  
Tolerance Factors ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection ◽  
Low Rate

Low-rate Distributed Denial-of-Service (low-rate DDoS) attacks are a new challenge to cyberspace, as the attackers send a large amount of attack packets similar to normal traffic, to throttle legitimate flows. In this paper, we propose a measurement—expectation of packet size—that is based on the distribution difference of the packet size to distinguish two typical low-rate DDoS attacks, the constant attack and the pulsing attack, from legitimate traffic. The experimental results, obtained using a series of real datasets with different times and different tolerance factors, are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed measurement. In addition, extensive experiments are performed to show that the proposed measurement can detect the low-rate DDoS attacks not only in the short and long terms but also for low packet rates and high packet rates. Furthermore, the false-negative rates and the adjudication distance can be adjusted based on the detection sensitivity requirements.

scholarly journals Adaptive DDoS Attack Detection Method Based on Multiple-Kernel Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jieren Cheng ◽  
Chen Zhang ◽  
Xiangyan Tang ◽  
Victor S. Sheng ◽  
Zhe Dong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Detection Method ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Multiple Kernel Learning ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Kernel Learning ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Ddos Attacks ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Multiple Kernel ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks has caused huge economic losses to society. They have become one of the main threats to Internet security. Most of the current detection methods based on a single feature and fixed model parameters cannot effectively detect early DDoS attacks in cloud and big data environment. In this paper, an adaptive DDoS attack detection method (ADADM) based on multiple-kernel learning (MKL) is proposed. Based on the burstiness of DDoS attack flow, the distribution of addresses, and the interactivity of communication, we define five features to describe the network flow characteristic. Based on the ensemble learning framework, the weight of each dimension is adaptively adjusted by increasing the interclass mean with a gradient ascent and reducing the intraclass variance with a gradient descent, and the classifier is established to identify an early DDoS attack by training simple multiple-kernel learning (SMKL) models with two characteristics including interclass mean squared difference growth (M-SMKL) and intraclass variance descent (S-SMKL). The sliding window mechanism is used to coordinate the S-SMKL and M-SMKL to detect the early DDoS attack. The experimental results indicate that this method can detect DDoS attacks early and accurately.

scholarly journals Detecting High and Low Intensity Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Abigail Koay
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Traffic Classification ◽  
Distributed Denial Of Service ◽  
Ddos Attacks ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection

<p>High and low-intensity attacks are two common Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that disrupt Internet users and their daily operations. Detecting these attacks is important to ensure that communication, business operations, and education facilities can run smoothly. Many DDoS attack detection systems have been proposed in the past but still lack performance, scalability, and information sharing ability to detect both high and low-intensity DDoS attacks accurately and early. To combat these issues, this thesis studies the use of Software-Defined Networking technology, entropy-based features, and machine learning classifiers to develop three useful components, namely a good system architecture, a useful set of features, and an accurate and generalised traffic classification scheme. The findings from the experimental analysis and evaluation results of the three components provide important insights for researchers to improve the overall performance, scalability, and information sharing ability for building an accurate and early DDoS attack detection system.</p>

scholarly journals DDoS detection and prevention based on artificial intelligence techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol XXII (1) ◽  
pp. 134-143
Author(s):  
Glăvan D.
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Ddos Attacks ◽  
Great Loss ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Techniques ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Random Forest Tree ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been the major threats for the Internet and can bring great loss to companies and governments. With the development of emerging technologies, such as cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence techniques, attackers can launch a huge volume of DDoS attacks with a lower cost, and it is much harder to detect and prevent DDoS attacks, because DDoS traffic is similar to normal traffic. Some artificial intelligence techniques like machine learning algorithms have been used to classify DDoS attack traffic and detect DDoS attacks, such as Naive Bayes and Random forest tree. In the paper, we survey on the latest progress on the DDoS attack detection using artificial intelligence techniques and give recommendations on artificial intelligence techniques to be used in DDoS attack detection and prevention.

scholarly journals IFACNN: efficient DDoS attack detection based on improved firefly algorithm to optimize convolutional neural networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1280-1303
Author(s):  
Jiushuang Wang ◽  
◽  
Ying Liu ◽  
Huifen Feng
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Firefly Algorithm ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Ddos Attacks ◽  
Detection Scheme ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Improved Firefly Algorithm ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection

<abstract><p>Network security has become considerably essential because of the expansion of internet of things (IoT) devices. One of the greatest hazards of today's networks is distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which could destroy critical network services. Recent numerous IoT devices are unsuspectingly attacked by DDoS. To securely manage IoT equipment, researchers have introduced software-defined networks (SDN). Therefore, we propose a DDoS attack detection scheme to secure the real-time in the software-defined the internet of things (SD-IoT) environment. In this article, we utilize improved firefly algorithm to optimize the convolutional neural network (CNN), to provide detection for DDoS attacks in our proposed SD-IoT framework. Our results demonstrate that our scheme can achieve higher than 99% DDoS behavior and benign traffic detection accuracy.</p></abstract>

scholarly journals DDoS attack detection using deep learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 382
Author(s):  
Thapanarath Khempetch ◽  
Pongpisit Wuttidittachotti
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Ddos Attacks ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Attack Surface ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection ◽  
Flow Of Information

<span id="docs-internal-guid-58e12f40-7fff-ea30-01f6-fbbed132b03c"><span>Nowadays, IoT devices are widely used both in daily life and in corporate and industrial environments. The use of these devices has increased dramatically and by 2030 it is estimated that their usage will rise to 125 billion devices causing enormous flow of information. It is likely that it will also increase distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack surface. As IoT devices have limited resources, it is impossible to add additional security structures to it. Therefore, the risk of DDoS attacks by malicious people who can take control of IoT devices, remain extremely high. In this paper, we use the CICDDoS2019 dataset as a dataset that has improved the bugs and introducing a new taxonomy for DDoS attacks, including new classification based on flows network. We propose DDoS attack detection using the deep neural network (DNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) algorithm. Our results show that it can detect more than 99.90% of all three types of DDoS attacks. The results indicate that deep learning is another option for detecting attacks that may cause disruptions in the future.</span></span>

scholarly journals On the use of information theory metrics for detecting DDoS attacks and flash events: an empirical analysis, comparison, and future directions

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagdeep Singh ◽  
◽  
Navjot Jyoti ◽  
Sunny Behal ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Ddos Attacks ◽  
Operating Characteristics ◽  
Classification Rate ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one of the lethal threats that can cripple down the computing and communication resources of a web server hosting Internet-based services and applications. It has motivated the researchers over the years to find diversified and robust solutions to combat against DDoS attacks and characterization of flash events (a sudden surge in the legitimate traffic) from HR-DDoS (High-Rate DDoS) attacks. In recent times, the volume of legitimate traffic has also magnified manifolds. It results in behavioral similarities of attack traffic and legitimate traffic that make it very difficult and crucial to differentiate between the two. Predominantly, Netflow-based techniques are in use for detecting and differentiating legitimate and attack traffic flows. Over the last decade, fellow researchers have extensively used distinct information theory metrics for Netflow-based DDoS defense solutions. However, a comprehensive analysis and comparison of these diversified information theory metrics used for particularly DDoS attack detection are needed for a better understanding of the defense systems based on information theory. This paper elucidates the efficacy and effectiveness of information theory-based various entropy and divergence measures in the field of DDoS attack detection. As part of the work, a generalized NetFlow-based methodology has been proposed. The proposed detection methodology has been validated using the traffic traces of various real benchmarked datasets on a set of detection system evaluation metrics such as Detection rate (Recall), Precision, F-Measure, FPR, Classification rate, and Receiver-Operating Characteristics (ROC) curves. It has concluded that generalized divergence-based information theory metrics produce more accuracy in detecting different types of attack flows in contrast to entropy-based information theory metrics.

scholarly journals Feature Selection Techniques Cloud DDOS Attack Detection

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1257-1260
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Network Traffic ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
False Alarms ◽  
Traffic Classification ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Network Intrusion ◽  
Network Traffic Classification ◽  
Ddos Attack Detection

The ongoing progression of Cloud Computing, it gives different services to together hierarchical as well as singular users, for example, shared computing resources, storage, networking and so on interest. The most well-known sort of attack on Cloud-computing is Distributed Denial of Service- (DDoS) Attack. DDoS attack is an bother which makes resources inaccessible to the client by trading off enormous no of system called bots. This paper proposes systems to create an ideal network traffic feature set for network intrusion detection. The proposed system shows that a reliable set of features are chosen for a given dataset. The outcomes demonstrate that the proposed procedure yields a set of features that, when utilized for network traffic classification, yields low quantities of false alarms.

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