Title :
The Insecurity of Cloud Utility Models
Author :
Idziorek, Joseph ; Tannian, Mark F. ; Jacobson, Doug
Author_Institution :
Iowa State University
Abstract :
Cloud-based services are vulnerable to attacks that seek to exploit the pay-as-you-go pricing model. A botnet could perform fraudulent resource consumption (FRC) by consuming the bandwidth of Web-based services, thereby increasing the cloud consumer´s financial burden.
Keywords :
Bandwidth; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Computer crime; Pricing; Quality of service; Web servers; DDoS; attribution; detection; fraudulent resource consumption attack; information technology; mitigation; prevention; public cloud computing; security; utility pricing model;
Journal_Title :
IT Professional
DOI :
10.1109/MITP.2012.43
