Mobile Agent Technology -Security Threats and Measures
Author:
M A Rizvi1, R K Kapoor2, M M Malik3 and Sanjay Sharma4
Affiliation:
1National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Bhopal India
2National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Bhopal India
3 Department of Physics Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal India
4Depatment of Computer Applications Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal India
Email:-marizvi@hotmail.com
Keyword:
Mobile agent Technology
Issue Date:
December 2010
Abstract:
Mobile agent technology offers a new computing paradigm in which a program, in the form of a software agent, can start its execution on a host computer that provides the necessary computational environment to run that agent, suspend its execution on the host computer, transfer itself to another agent-enabled host on the network, and resume execution on the new host. Incarnations of current generation agent can be characterized in a number of ways varying from simple distributed objects to highly organized software with embedded intelligence. A mobile agent is a particular type of agent with the ability to migrate from one host to another where it can resume its execution.
Thus, as the sophistication of mobile software has increased, the associated threats to security have also increased. This paper provides an overview of the variety of threats that are being faced by the designers of agent platforms and the developers of agent based applications. The paper also identifies generic objectives of agent security, and presents a range of measures for countering the identified threats and fulfilling these security objectives.
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2455-9997 (Online) - 2229-3531 (Print)
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