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Frank's organization operates in a shared responsibility cloud environment. What can Frank do to determine if he is suffering from a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against his cloud hosting environment?

Answer Options

A

Nothing; cloud services do not provide security tools.

B

Call the cloud service provider to have them stop the DoS attack.

C

Review the cloud service provider's security tools and enable logging and anti-DoS tools if they exist.

D

Call the cloud service provider's Internet service provider (ISP) and ask them to enable DoS prevention.

Correct Answer: C

Explanation

Frank's best option is to review the anti-denial-of-service and other security tools that his cloud hosting provider provides and to make appropriate use of them. The major infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers have a variety of security tools that can help both detect and prevent DoS attacks from taking down sites that are hosted in their infrastructure. Calling the cloud service provider's ISP will not work because the ISP works with the cloud provider, not with Frank! It is possible the cloud service provider might be able to assist Frank, but they are most likely to instruct him to use the existing tools that they already provide.