Multi-agent based intrusion detection system for cloud computing - (iaas)
Abstract
Cloud Computing has come to represent a significant shift in Information Technology. Companies are excited by the
opportunities to reduce capital costs, invest on core competencies and as well by the agility offered by the rapid on-demand
provisioning of computing resources with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
However, security concerns have slowed down the uptake of cloud computing services. Trust has been identified as the key
barrier to cloud computing uptake as consumers are worried about who has access to their data within the cloud because by
using cloud infrastructures, the client necessarily cedes control to the cloud provider. At the same time, service level
agreements may not offer a commitment to provide such services on the part of the cloud provider, thus leaving a gap in
security defenses.
To alleviate the issue of trust, mechanisms of auditability and accountability in a cloud computing environment must be put
in place. Hence in this project, we detail the use of a multi agent based framework for file centric intrusion detection in the
cloud computing environment with focus on the Infrastructure as a Service model; we design and implement the framework
which serves to monitor file creations, modifications or deletions in a cloud computing environment i.e., the framework
seeks to answer who did what? At what time? On which file? And what were the changes made?
We use the JADE development framework and the PASSI (Process for Agent Societies Specification and Implementation)
methodology in modeling the proposed agent based solution as it offers step by step requirements to code guidelines and
the much needed iterativeness to fully ensure user requirements are fully captured.
The framework depicts aspects of security assurance that assists in efforts to promote the issue of trust in a cloud computing
environment hence increase the uptake of the service. The potential beneficiaries of this project are both service providers
and consumers of cloud computing services.
Citation
Masters of science in computer sciencePublisher
University of Nairobi School of Computing and Informatics
Subject
AgentsMulti Agent Systems
Cloud Computing
Virtual Machine
Infrastructure as a Service
Intrusion Detection System