Rashidah F. Olanrewaju ¹, Burhan ul Islam Khan ¹, M.Mueen Ul Islam Mattoo ¹, Farhat Anwar ¹, Anis Nurashikin Bt. Nordin ¹, Roohie Naaz Mir ², Zainab Noor ³

Affiliations
1 Department of ECE Kulliyyah of Engineering IIUM, MY
2 Department of CSE National Institute of Technology Srinagar - 190006, Jammu and Kashmir, IN
3 ASET (Amity School of Engineering and Technology), Amity University, Noida - 201313, Uttar Pradesh, IN

Abstract

Objectives: The goal of this paper is to comprehend the significance of adopting Cloud Computing (CC) in establishments of higher learning. This paper plots a portion of the advantages that can be conveyed to advanced education by means of cloud computing, analyzes probably the most imperative difficulties that can be faced by the academia due to its adoption, and proposes some early strides towards its adoption while alleviating the risks involved. Methods/Statistical Analysis: This paper recognizes an expansiveness of institutional variables and CC appropriation procedures by including the diverse perspectives of sources from various backgrounds and contexts on a single phenomenon. The different aids and contributions in this paper are based on the consolidation of research works available in different papers. Findings: The discoveries from this analysis demonstrate that the adoption of CC in establishments of higher learning can be comprehended through a few factors that have an essential impact on CC adoption methodologies like administrative bodies and governments, internal stakeholders, cloud suppliers, firm attributes, socio-political changes, IT framework, and so on. Applications/Improvements: This investigation offers open doors for future research besides giving an understanding into how cloud suppliers, advisors, governments, and scholastics see diverse market requests, and how they react to these requests while advancing services offered by CC in higher learning institutions. The consequences for practice can help decision makers in adopting services offered by CC legitimately.

Keywords

Cloud Based Education, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Adoption, Cloud Pedagogy

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Rashidah Funke Olanrewaju ¹, Burhan Ul Islam Khan ¹, Athaur Rahman Najeeb ¹, Ku Nor Afiza Ku Zahir ¹, Sabahat Hussain ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kulliyyah of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, MY

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Objectives: In this paper, a smart Intrusion Detection System (IDS) has been proposed that detects network attacks in less time after monitoring incoming traffic thus maintaining better performance. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The features are extracted using back-propagation algorithm. Then, only these relevant features are trained with the help of multi-layer perceptron supervised neural network. The simulation is performed using MATLAB. Findings: The proposed system has been verified to have high accuracy rate, high sensitivity as well as a reduction in false positive rate. Besides, the intrusions have been classified into four categories as Denial-of-Service (DoS), User-to-ischolar_main (U2R), Remote-to-Local (R2L) and Probe attacks; and the alerts are stored and shared via a central log. Thus, the unknown attacks detected by other Intrusion Detection Systems can be sensed by any IDS in the network thereby reducing computational cost as well as enhancing the overall detection rate. Applications/Improvements: The proposed system does not waste time by considering and analysing all the features but takes into consideration only relevant ones for the specific attack and supervised learning neural network is used for intrusion detection. By the application of Snort before backpropagation algorithm, the latter has only one function to perform – detection of unknown attacks. In this way, the time for attack detection is reduced.

Keywords

Back-Propagation, Intrusion Detection System, Multi-Layer Feed-Forward Neural Network, Snort

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Sabahat Hussain ¹, Burhan Ul Islam Khan ¹, Farhat Anwar ¹, Rashidah Funke Olanrewaju ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kulliyyah of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur, MY

Abstract

Objectives: In this paper, an approach to online banking authorization using one-time passwords has been illustrated. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The algorithm presented in this paper provides an infinite as well as forward One-Time- Password (OTP) generation mechanism employing two Secure Hash Algorithms viz. SHA3 and SHA2, followed by dynamic truncation to produce human-readable OTP. An inimitable authentication scheme has been presented in which a unique initial seed is used for generating a series of OTPs on the user’s handheld gadget (i.e. a mobile phone). Findings: The proposed scheme demonstrated better results than the previous schemes of authorization after a security analysis was conducted on it. This is attributed to the eradication of cellular network within the authorization process. A high level of performance and efficiency in authentication and authorization was evident from the results that are vital for transacting online. Applications/Improvements: In the proposed system, the inherent features of the user’s device (mobile phone) are utilized to form the initial seed. The application of hash functions to that seed eliminates the necessity to send one time passwords to the users via Short Message Service and decreases the limitations posed by out-of-band systems, thus making it suitable to be employed in online banking and other financial organizations.

Keywords

Authentication, Authorization, Out-of-band Authorization, Hash Functions

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