How to detect fraudulent activity in a cloud without invading users' privacy

  • 27 November 2014
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Posted on 27 November 2014. A group of researchers have found a clever way for cloud providers to detect fraudulent activities in their clouds without actually probing into the kind of activity a user performs, but by using privacy-friendly billing data.

The great thing about the cloud is that companies and users can use as much compute power or storage as needed at a specific moment and pay only for what was used.

However, fraudulent, illegal or undesired activities such as using a cloud infrastructure to launch DDoS attacks or cryptocurrency mining can ruin the experience for those who use the cloud for private and corporate purposes, as the aforementioned undesired activities can continuously suck up too much bandwidth and reduce the lifespan of the hardware. Full Article

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