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Mimicking Prey's escalation predation-avoidance techniques for cloud computing survivability using fuzzy cognitive map


Abstract:

With the advent of the cloud computing as the defacto computing platform, a new era of attacks has emerged threatening its utility. A wide-scale deployment of reactive tr...Show More

Abstract:

With the advent of the cloud computing as the defacto computing platform, a new era of attacks has emerged threatening its utility. A wide-scale deployment of reactive traditional countermeasures, means that cloud-based services and cloud infrastructures are only fully re-serviceable post the occurrence of an incident. Survivability of cloud services; a composite notion of availability, integrity, and confidentiality among others is critical, but nonetheless threatened in the prevailing climate. In addition, conventional survivability analysis wrongly assumes that services exist in a binary state, i.e. failed, successful, etc. which does not account for other intermediary states characteristic to complex environments. This introduces uncertainly where sub-parameters exist. In this paper, intermediary prey's predation avoidance techniques are extracted as useful survivability attributes for cloud computing designs. The contributions of this paper are as follows: (1) NetLogo simulation results shows an increase in prey survival after the introduction of a secondary predation avoidance action. (2) High-level IaaS designs with survivability agents capable of making decisions with limited initial information. (3) Experimental results Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) Expert with multiple decision points for perceived and real attacks. Our findings are significant since perception, sensing, and response strategy are critical to intermediary parameters and central to optimal survivability.
Date of Conference: 23-26 April 2018
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 04 June 2018
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Conference Location: Barcelona, Spain

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