Confidentiality, integrity and availability are the main objectives of any information security model.

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With specific regard to availability, the aim is to guarantee that the information, services, and available resources are accessible to authorized users. One of the priorities of web services is to guarantee the availability of services and resources. However, all of the specifications that have been proposed for providing security within web services (WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, etc.) only consider the integrity and confidentiality of messages without much consideration for availability.

One of the increasingly common threats within web services environments, and one that jeopardizes the availability factor, is denial of service (DoS). This type of attack exploits vulnerable points within the standard components supporting the technology. There are several initiatives within this field. However, the main common disadvantage that each of these approaches has is their low capacity to adapt themselves to changes in patterns. This reduces the effectiveness of these methods when slight variations in the behaviours of known attacks occur or when new attacks appear.

This works presents a novel soft computing-based approach to cope with DoS attacks, but unlike existing solutions, our proposal takes into account the different soft computing mechanisms that can lead to a DoS attack. Our approach is based on a real time classifier agent that incorporates a mixture of experts to choose a specific classification technique depending on the feature of the attack and the time available to solve the classification. With this scheme it is possible to divide the problem into subproblems, solving the classification of the web service requests in a more simple and effective way, and always within a time bound interval.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS

NATIONALS

FUSION@ : Flexible User and ServIces Oriented multi-ageNt Architecture

Reference: PET2008_0036

Funding body: Ministry of Education and Science(Fundamental research projects for the Transfer of Knowledge to Enterprises (TRACE))

Collaborators: Nebusens

Principal Research: Juan Manuel Corchado

Start date: 01-03-2009    End date: 01-02-2011

SQLCBR

Reference: TSI-020100-2008-31

Funding body: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio. Avanza I+D. Acción Estratégica de Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información.

Collaborators: Universidad de Salamanca, Flag Solutions S.L.

Principal Research: Javier Bajo Pérez

Start date: 10/07/2008           End date: 25/12/2009

 

 

 

 

 

Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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