Lightweight agents for intrusion detection

  • Authors:
  • Guy Helmer;Johnny S. K. Wong;Vasant G. Honavar;Les Miller;Yanxin Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, 225 Computer Science Building, Ames, IA;Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, 225 Computer Science Building, Ames, IA;Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, 225 Computer Science Building, Ames, IA;Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, 225 Computer Science Building, Ames, IA;Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, 225 Computer Science Building, Ames, IA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We have designed and implemented an intrusion detection system (IDS) prototype based on mobile agents. Our agents travel between monitored systems in a network of distributed systems, obtain information from data cleaning agents, classify and correlate information, and report the information to a user interface and database via mediators.Agent systems with lightweight agent support allow runtime addition of new capabilities to agents. We describe the design of our Multi-agent IDS and show how lightweight agent capabilities allowed us to add communication and collaboration capabilities to the mobile agents in our IDS.