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Table 3 Case Two - A bogus component scenario specifications

From: Handling compromised components in an IaaS cloud installation

 

Incident description

Incident type

Inappropriate Usage

Current status

Ongoing attack, the bogus compute worker is still up and serving a part of requests

Physical Location

OpenStack-5

Affected Layers

Cloud platform layer, the OpenStack nova-compute service, consumers’ instances

General Information

A bogus compute worker node is added to the platform, it is a threat to the provider’s and consumers’ data confidentiality and integrity. Also a threat for the system availability.

Resources at risk

Running instances on OpenStack-5, Stakeholders and resources interacting with running instance on OpenStack-5