Defeating the Distributed Denial of Service Attack in Cloud Environment: A Survey

Cloud computing technologies are elaborated and popularized the power, networking, communications and storage speculated the human race to procreate process and share digital information to new demand for more impressive computing infrastructure. Although the Cloud computing is a very promising and challenging internet based computing infrastructure, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is the one of the main attack. This attack can accord the obtainability of the assistance and can be conveniently initiated, it leads to financial damages or affecting the notoriety and this attack is tricky to detect and filter. With respect to the above scenario the detailed survey is made in this paper which focuses on different defeating mechanisms of DDoS attacks such as Detection Techniques, Filtering Techniques and Traceback.