Analysis of SQL injection attacks in the cloud and in WEB applications

Abstract

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way IT industries work. Most modern‐day companies rely on cloud services to accomplish their day‐to‐day tasks. From hosting websites to developing platforms and storing resources, cloud computing has tremendous use in the modern information technology industry. Although an emerging technique, it has many security challenges. In structured query language injection attacks, the attacker modifies some parts of the user query to still sensitive user information. This type of attack is challenging to detect and prevent. In this article, we have reviewed 65 research articles that address the issue of its prevention and detection in cloud and Traditional Networks, of which 11 research articles are related to general cloud attacks, and the rest of the 54 research articles are specifically on web security. Our result shows that Random Forest has an accuracy of 99.8% and a Precision rate of 99.9%, and the worst‐performing model is Multi‐Layer Perceptron (MLP) in the SQLIA Model. For recall value, Random Forest performs best while TensorFlow Linear Classifier performs worst. F1 score is best in Random Forest, while MLP is the most diminutive performer.