 
cloud service from being able to access their data or their applications.  By 
forcing the victim cloud service to consume inordinate amounts of finite 
system resources such as processor power, memory, disk space or network 
bandwidth, the attacker (or attackers, as is the case in distributed denial-of-
service (DDoS) attacks) causes an intolerable system slowdown and leaves all 
of the legitimate service users confused and angry as to why the service isn’t 
responding. 
While DDoS attacks tend to genera