MA-NID : a multi-agent system for network intrusion detection

The application of the new technology DAI (Distributed Artificial Intelligence) seems promising for designing efficient secure networks. Intelligent agents features should offer to future networks, the capacity to become autonomous and adaptive to changes in a given environment. In fact, systems vary considerably in time in terms of component number, user access queries and intrusion possibilities. The focus point of our study concerns one critical security issue : intrusion detection. This paper proposes a new approach MA-NID (Multi Agent Network Intrusion Detection) based on intelligent agent technology. It is used to provide a flexible integration of multi-agent technique in a classical network to enhance its protection level against inherent attacks.