A Survey on Detecting Application Layer DDoS Using Big Data Technologies

Abstract

In the era of Big Data, Data security is of prime importance. With the increase in the amount of data, the volume of attacks also increase. The biggest threat nowadays is the Distributed Denial of service (DDOS) attacks. DDOS attacks can be of two types the layer-3 (network layer) attacks and layer-7 (application layer) attacks. There are numerous research works conducted on layer-3 attacks but very few research work is conducted on application layer attacks. Nowadays the application layer attacks are widespread and the current techniques presently used to counter them mainly use neural networks and machine learning. In our approach, we will be using hive queries to detect and segregate the application layer attacks.

Keywords: Big Data, Distributed Denial of Service, Application layer Attacks, Network Layer Attacks