Using mobile agents as roaming security guards to test and improve security of hosts and networks

1 This paper discusses the design and implementation details of MAST (Mobile Agent-based Security Tool), a new mobile agentbased network security approach. MAST has been designed to support flexible and customizable network security tasks and training. This paper focuses on the implementation details and security aspects of MAST’s components, services, and mobileagent architecture Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.11 [Artificial Intelligence]: Distributed Artificial Intelligence – multiagent systems, intelligent agents. I.2.4 [Artificial Intelligence]: Knowledge Representation Formalisms and Methods – representation languages, semantic networks. General Terms Management, Design, Reliability, Security, Human Factors Keywords MAST, Network Security, Knowledge models, mobile agents, concept maps, IHMC.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: SAC
• Authors: Marco M. Carvalho, Thomas B. Cowin, Niranjan Suri, Maggie R. Breedy, Kenneth M. Ford
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Agent-based Security, Network Security, SAC 2004