A Profile Based Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Securing Cloud Environment

Joint Authors

Abraham, Ajith
Gupta, Sanchika
Kumar, Padam

Source

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

Issue

Vol. 2013, Issue - (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-12, 12 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2013-03-27

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

12

Main Subjects

Telecommunications Engineering
Information Technology and Computer Science

Abstract EN

Cloud computing provides network based access to computing and data storage services on a pay per usage model.

Cloud provides better utilization of resources and hence a reduced service access cost to individuals.

Cloud services include software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service.

Cloud computing virtually and dynamically distributes the computing and data resources to a variety of users, based on their needs, with the use of virtualization technologies.

As Cloud computing is a shared facility and is accessed remotely, it is vulnerable to various attacks including host and network based attacks (Brown 2012, and Grance 2009) and hence requires immediate attention.

This paper identifies vulnerabilities responsible for well-known network based attacks on cloud and does a critical analysis on the security measures available in cloud environment.

This paper focuses on a nonconventional technique for securing cloud network from malicious insiders and outsiders with the use of network profiling.

With network profiling, a profile is created for each virtual machine (VM) in cloud that describes network behavior of each cloud user (an assigned VM).

The behavior gathered is then used for determination (detection) of network attacks on cloud.

The novelty of the approach lies in the early detection of network attacks with robustness and minimum complexity.

The proposed technique can be deployed with minimal changes to existing cloud environment.

An initial prototype implementation is verified and tested on private cloud with a fully functional implementation under progress.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Gupta, Sanchika& Kumar, Padam& Abraham, Ajith. 2013. A Profile Based Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Securing Cloud Environment. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks،Vol. 2013, no. -, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-466159

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Gupta, Sanchika…[et al.]. A Profile Based Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Securing Cloud Environment. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Vol. 2013, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-466159

American Medical Association (AMA)

Gupta, Sanchika& Kumar, Padam& Abraham, Ajith. A Profile Based Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Securing Cloud Environment. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. -, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-466159

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-466159