Vulnerability Classification for Detecting Threats in Cloud Environments Against DDoS Attacks

In order to secure data, infrastructure, and services from potential attacks, cloud security is a wide issue that includes any combination of policies, technologies, and procedures. The cloud has substantially different security needs than traditional settings. Because of its dynamic nature and low client infrastructure ownership, the cloud has decreased traditional security architecture. Internet connectivity and distant servers are used in cloud computing to manage data and applications. It provides users with on-demand software, bandwidth, and dynamic virtualized resources through the internet and ensures that its adapters will share in various financial advantages. The utilization of hardware, software licenses, and system maintenance is decreased for the benefit of the customers. The protocol known as SOAP or Simple Object Access Protocol, it enables communication between various web-based services. Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) and Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP) are both used to develop SOAP communications. A cloud web service that uses HTTP and XML might be bringing down by the new type of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. HTTP and XML Denial of Service (DoS) attacks provide a serious security risk to cloud computing. The Hypertext Extensible-Denial of Service (HX-DoS) attack, which causes the cloud service provider's communication channel to get blocked and go down, is made up of purposefully transmitted HTTP and XML messages. Differentiating between suitable and improper communications is necessary to solve the issue of HX-DoS attacks against cloud web services. To decide and place the packets on the side of the victim, the reconstruct and drop technique is utilized. Detection rate, accuracy, and precision were the performance parameters used to evaluated the model's performance.