Developing Mobile Agent for Intrusion Detection

Mobile agent is a certain agent actively able to move from one computer to another or even travel across network to perform the task assigned. This research aimed to develop mobile agent model to detect distributed intrusion (Distributed Intrusion Detection System). It was expected that the produced model was able to perform its task in nearly real time manner, to be immune against attack, and also fairly small overhead at the host, either in memory consumption or CPU usage. In this research, the Aglets concept was also developed to aid intrusion detection. This approach was also maintained to solve certain issues such as scalability, reliability, and configurability. Hence, the advantages and limitations of agent-based approaches will be when it is applied in real world.