Attack Tolerance for Services-Based Applications in the Cloud

摘要

Web services allow the communication of heterogeneous systems and are particularly suitable for building cloud applications. Furthermore, such applications must verify some static properties, but also tolerate attacks at runtime to ensure service continuity. To achieve this, in this paper we propose an attack tolerance framework that includes the risks of attacks. After describing the foundation of this framework, we propose expressing cloud applications as choreographies of services that take into account their distributed nature. Then, we extended the framework to introduce choreography verification by incorporating monitoring (passive tests) and reaction mechanisms. These techniques are validated through relevant experiments. As a result, our framework ensures the required attack tolerance of such cloud applications.