mOSAIC-Based Intrusion Detection Framework for Cloud Computing

""In recent years, with the growing popularity of Cloud Com-. puting, security in Cloud has become an important issue. Cloud Com-. puting paradigm represents an opportunity for users to reduce costs and. increase efficiency providing an alternative way of using services. It rep-. resents both a technology for using computing infrastructures in a more. efficient way and a business model for selling computing resources. The. possibility of dynamically acquire and use resources and services on the. base of a pay-per-use model, implies incredible flexibility in terms of. management, which is otherwise often hard to address. On the other. hand, because of this flexibility, Denial of Service attacks represent a. serious danger, which can compromise performance and availability of. services provided to final users. In this paper, a mOSAIC-based frame-. work for providing distributed intrusion detection in Cloud Computing. is proposed. It is an architectural framework that collects information at. different Cloud architectural levels, using multiple security components,. which are dynamically deployed as a distributed architecture. The pro-. posed solution allows to monitor different attack symptoms on different. Cloud architectural levels, which can be used to perform complex event. correlation and diagnosis analysis of intrusion in the Cloud system."