A Survey on Data Integrity Attacks and DDoS Attacks in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has become a beneficial and profitable industry due to its main characteristics of pay-as-you-go and scalability. These are the traits that have attracted businesses to transfer their data and services to a cloud platform accessed through the Internet. However, internet based services and remote access to data have become a main concern in this new model. An unstable and insufficient security layer has created a penetrable wall to the assets and services of their customers. In other words, businesses are being targeted by a vast list of security attacks that primarily affect service availability and data integrity. In this survey paper, identification of security attacks affecting service availability and data integrity are established. Moreover, possible solution approaches are studied and analyzed for such attacks.