Open AccessInternal Security on an IDS Based on Agents
Author(s) -
Rafael Páez,
Mery Yolima Uribe,
Miguel Torres
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of network security and its applications/international journal of network security and applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0975-2307
pISSN - 0974-9330
DOI - 10.5121/ijnsa.2013.5410
Subject(s) - computer security , computer science , business , internet privacy
An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can monitor different events that may occur in a determined networkor host, and which affect any network security service (confidentiality, integrity, availability). Because ofthis, an IDS must be flexible and it must detect and trace each alert without affecting the system´sperformance. On the other hand, agents ina Multi-Agent system have inherent security problems due totheir mobility; that’s why we propose some techniques in order to provide internal security for the agentsbelonging to the system. The deployed IDS works with a multiagent platform and each component insidethe infrastructure is verified using security techniques in order to provide integrity. Likewise, the agentscan specialize in order to carry out specific jobs, for example monitoring TCP, UDP traffic, etc. The IDScan work without interfering in the system's performance. In this article we present a hierarchical IDSdeployment with internal security on a multiagent system, using a platform named BESA with its processes,functions and results