An Adaptive Multi-agent Solution to Detect DoS Attack in SOAP Messages

A SOAP message can be affected by a DoS attack if the incoming message has been either created or modified maliciously. The specifications of existing security standards do not focus on this type of attack. This article presents a novel distributed and adaptive approach for dealing with DoS attacks...

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Autores: Pinzón Trejos, Cristian, De Paz, Juan, Bajo, Javier, Corchado, Juan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:Panamá
Institución:Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional de documento digitales de acceso abierto de la UTP
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ridda2.utp.ac.pa:123456789/4799
Acceso en línea:http://ridda2.utp.ac.pa/handle/123456789/4799
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:CBR
Multi-agent system
Web Services
SOAP message
DoS Attack
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Sumario:A SOAP message can be affected by a DoS attack if the incoming message has been either created or modified maliciously. The specifications of existing security standards do not focus on this type of attack. This article presents a novel distributed and adaptive approach for dealing with DoS attacks in Web Service environments, which represents an alternative to the existing centralized solutions. The solution proposes a distributed hierarchical multi-agent architecture that implements a classification mechanism in two phases. The main benefits of the approach are the distributed capabilities of the multi-agent systems and the self-adaption ability to the changes that occur in the patterns of attack. A prototype of the architecture was developed and the results obtained are presented in this study.