A Client Bootstrapping Protocol for DoS Attack Mitigation on Entry Point Services in the Cloud

• Published in: Security and communication networks Vol. 2020; no. 2020; pp. 1 - 12
• Main Authors: Elish, Karim, Alawadh, Mahmoud, Almutawa, Mohammad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2020; Hindawi; Hindawi Limited
• Subjects: Algorithms; Clients; Cloud computing; Denial of service attacks; Electronic devices; Moving targets; Servers; Software; Web services

This paper presents a client bootstrapping protocol for proxy-based moving target defense system for the cloud. The protocol establishes the identity of prospective clients who intend to connect to web services behind obscure proxy servers in a cloud-based network. In client bootstrapping, a set of...