Prediction of Information Security Threats in the Cloud Services

Student: Shabalov Vlad

Supervisor: Alexander Baranov

Educational Programme: Information Security Management (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2017

Cloud services have become part of the life of modern companies. Any organization that wants to save on the deployment and maintenance of the IT infrastructure must understand what cloud services are, what benefits they have, and most importantly - whether this solution is safe for business. Predicting threats in cloud services is a non-trivial task that requires good mathematical preparation and skills. The Master Thesis provides basic approaches to forecast threats to information security in cloud services, in particular DDoS-attacks.

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