MASNET:Mobile Agent to Secure Networks

Abstract

The most important key factor of internet users is to secure their networks, users, applications and resources from various kinds of network attacks such as viruses, malware, spyware, intrusions, blocked networks, damages, mail and some times mobile phone spam messages, software vulnerabilities, data theft, financial losses. With the growth of threats and attacks in the internet users and network users, many individuals, research groups and companies have widely developed Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) to secure their networks and to identity thefts. Most of the times these IDSs are been the first target of attackers prior to launch their attack to the network system. In order to guard against this threat, I propose a Mobile Agent to Secure Networks. (MASNET) is a new methodology to replace the traditional network administration tasks in order to secure your network in an efficient manner. MASNET will takeover the duties of the network administrator through a developed mobile monitoring agent. This agent is supposed to travel through the network and identify the existing problems, vulnerabilities, possible attacks and to apply a suitable patch to overcome this. This monitoring is task supposed to be available as far as the network is running. Since this involves a mobile agent so that the attackers are being frustrated by not knowing the critical ID.