Securing cloud computing environment against DDoS attacks

Cloud computing is becoming one of the next IT industry buzz word. However, as cloud computing is still in its infancy, current adoption is associated with numerous challenges like security, performance, availability, etc. In cloud computing where infrastructure is shared by potentially millions of users, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have the potential to have much greater impact than against single tenanted architectures. This paper tested the efficiency of a cloud trace back model in dealing with DDoS attacks using back propagation neural network and finds that the model is useful in tackling Distributed Denial of Service attacks.