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Loss evaluation analysis of illegal attack in SCSKP

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It has always been a challenging problem to evaluate the security of cloud services. In this paper, we analyze this problem exploiting the loss expectation by illegal attack in a quantitative way. With one of the key cloud services, storage cloud services based on key–value pairs (SCSKP for short), we quantify the protection ability with the Markov model analysis on the possibilities of various illegal attack. The loss expectation caused by the illegal attack will be calculated based on the analysis and then be used to quantify the resistance ability of SCSKP against such attacks, which serves as a metric to evaluate the security of the cloud service. We provide three series of experiments are exploited to test the expectation of losses. The results show that our method is valid and able to reflect the security situation of the cloud service.

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Acknowledgments

This research work was supported by Program for Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province (20150101054JC), and Key Program for Science and Technology Development of Jilin Province (20130206052GX).

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  1. College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, Jilin, China

    Peng Zhang, Lei Liu, Rui Zhang & Guangli Li

  2. Key Laboratory of Symbol Computation and Knowledge Engineer of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, Jilin, China

    Peng Zhang

  3. College of Mathematics, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, Jilin, China

    Peng Zhang

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Zhang, P., Liu, L., Zhang, R. et al. Loss evaluation analysis of illegal attack in SCSKP. Soft Comput 21, 515–524 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-015-1806-2

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