Abstract:
Mobile agent technology offers a dramatically evolving
computing paradigm in which a program, in the form of a
software agent, can suspend its execution on a host computer,
transfers itself to another agent-enabled host on the network,
and resumes execution on the new host. It is 1960's since mobile
code has been used in the form of remote job entry systems.
Today's mobile agents can be characterized in a number of ways
ranging from simple distributed objects to highly organized
intelligent softwares. As a result of this rapid evolvement of
mobile agents, plenty of critical security issues has risen and
plenty of work is being done to address these problems. The aim
is to provide trusted mobile agent systems that can be easily
deployed and widely adopted. In this paper, we provide an
overview of the most recent threats facing the designers of
agent platforms and the developers of agent-based applications.
The paper also identifies security objectives, and measures for
countering the identified threats and fulfilling those security
objectives.
