Proactive defence In the Cloud: Leveraging Ensemble Intrusion Detection to Combat Flash Crowd Attacks

Abstract

Cloud computing has emerged as a prominent paradigm for delivering various computing services. However, with its increasing popularity, the cloud infrastructure is becoming an attractive target for malicious actors. Flash crowd attacks pose a significant threat to the security and availability of cloud services. These attacks occur when a sudden surge in user traffic overwhelms the cloud infrastructure, causing system downtime, resource exhaustion, and potential security breaches.