Influence of Mobile Agent Security in Distributed System

Abstract

Due to the rapid growth of the network application, new kinds of network attacks are emerging endlessly. So to protect the networks from attackers and the Intrusion detection technology becomes popular. There is tremendous rise in attacks on wired and wireless LAN. Therefore security of Distributed System (DS) is become serious challenge. One such serious challenge in DS security domain is detection of rogue points in network. Lot of work has been done in detection of intruders. But the solutions are not satisfactory. This paper gives the new idea for detecting rouge point using Mobile agent. Mobile agent technology is best suited for audit information retrieval which is useful for the detection of rogue points. Using Mobile agent we can find the intruder in DS as well as controller can take corrective action. Mobile agents are gaining in complexity as they evolve and are now widely used in e-commerce. All phases of a business transaction, such as negotiating and signing contracts can be done using mobile agents. In this paper, a brief introduction to the recent researches & developments associated with the field of mobile agents is provided, various security threats is highlighting, and also, the weakest hot-spots of the field which need to be nurtured is touched.