BIS record '2003/1/255'

BibTeX

@inproceedings{BIS:2003/1/255,
  author        = {K. Garg and
                   R. B. Patel},
  title         = {A Security Framework for Mobile Agent Systems},
  year          = {2003},
  session       = {General BIS},
  pages         = {49--56},
  crossref      = {BIS:2003/1},
  bibsource     = {BIS, http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/biblio/},
  abstract      = {Mobile Agent technology raises significant security concerns and requires a thorough security framework, with a wide range of strategies and mechanisms for the protection of both agents and agent platforms against possibly malicious reciprocal behavior. The security infrastructure should have the ability to flexibly and dynamically offer different solutions, to achieve different qualities of security service depending on application requirements. There are several security attacks, which have been identified by researchers. These are mainly from host to host, from agent to host, from host to agent and from agent to agent. In this paper, we report on the analysis of security risks existing in mobile agent systems, based on which we have defined security measures for both safe transport and safe execution of agents. Cryptographic tools are used to generate sealed objects with digital signatures to ensure the safe transport of agents between hosts. Three levels of security have been developed for safe execution of concurrent agents depending on the need of the application. While most earlier work has reported on host protection, we have addressed host to host and agent to host security also and developed a common security framework usable on any mobile agent system. For implementation purposes, however, we have used PMADE, the mobile agent system developed of IIT Roorkee.}
}

  
@proceedings{BIS:2003/1,
  editor        = {Witold Abramowicz, Gary Klein},
  booktitle     = {BIS 2003, 6th International Conference on Business Information Systems, Poznań, Poland, 4-6 June 2003},
  title         = {BIS 2003, 6th International Conference on Business Information Systems, Poznań, Poland, 4-6 June 2003},
  publisher     = {Department of Information Systems, Poznań University of Economics},
  isbn          = {83-916842-1-0},
  year          = {2003},
  bibsource     = {BIS, http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/biblio/}
}