One Year of DDoS Attacks Against a Cloud Provider: an Overview

Un an d'attaques DDoS contre un fournisseur Cloud: constat et analyse

Clément Boin (1, 2, 3) , Xavier Guillaume (1) , Gilles Grimaud (2, 3) , Tristan Groléat (1) , Michaël Hauspie (2, 3)

1 OVHcloud [Roubaix]
2 2XS - Extra Small Extra Safe
3 CRIStAL - Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189

Distributed denial of service attacks represent 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

Mots clés: Network security; Distributed Denial of Service; Cloud provider

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]; Performance et fiabilité [cs.PF]

Clément Boin, Xavier Guillaume, Gilles Grimaud, Tristan Groléat, Michaël Hauspie. One Year of DDoS Attacks Against a Cloud Provider: an Overview. 4th International Conference on Advances in Computer Technology, Information Science and Communications, Apr 2022, Suzhou, China. ⟨10.1109/CTISC54888.2022.9849755⟩. ⟨hal-03655003v2⟩