One Year of DDoS Attacks Against a Cloud Provider: an Overview
Clément Boin, Xavier Guillaume, Gilles Grimaud, Tristan Groléat, Michaël Hauspie · 2022 4th International Conference on Advances in Computer Technology, Information Science and Communications (CTISC) · 2022
Distributed denial of service attacks represents one of the most important threats to cloud-providers. Over the years, volumetric DDoS attacks have become increasingly important and complex. Due to the rapid adaptation of attackers to the detection and mitigation methods designed to counter them, the industry needs to constantly monitor and analyse the attacks they face. In this paper, we present an overview of the attacks that were perpetrated against our infrastructure in 2021. Our motivation is to give an insight of the challenge that DDoS attacks still represent within a large European cloud provider