A mobile agent-based security architecture for Intranets

Huge popularity and demand of the Internet and Intranets has come at the prize of weakening data and network security, which cannot be overlooked. Data and networks are distributed, making them even more vulnerable to attacks. The security technologies must co-exist with and take maximum advantages of recent technologies of autonomous distributed computing. One such technology, which is gaining ground, is Mobile Agent technology. This paper takes a look at the aptness of Mobile Agent technology for security management and applies it to the manage-ment of the Internet and Intranets.