Analysis of DDoS Attack in Cloud Infrastructure

The computing world was revolutionized when the concept of Cloud Computing emerged. Cloud Computing became a solution to various problems of organizations from small scale to large scale organizations thanks to the benefits associated with it which includes Service on demand, Scalability, Flexibility, Availability, Ability to access anywhere only with an internet connection and other various added advantages. However, with the advancement of any technology, there have always been security issues related to it. One of the major security issues that was there previously and is continuing to emerge in Cloud Computing is the Denial of Service attack (DoS). The DoS attack in cloud is more harmful than ever and their effect in cloud is huge as it affects the scalability and the pay-per-use model of Cloud Computing. The paper will focus on the analysis of the DDoS attack on cloud infrastructure through simulation in CloudSim and flooding of ICMP packets using Ping of Death.