Journal of Information Technology & Software Engineering
Open Access

Abstract

Security for Mobile Agents and Platforms: Securing the Code and Protecting its Integrity

Mohammad Rezaul Karim

At present, mobile agent technology is an important research area for researcher to develop its new features, confirming its security and usability. Mobile agent is a program, which can be act in a computer network in order to perform some activities on behalf of a human user or an application. In this paper, we describe an overview of the security issues related to the mobile agent paradigm. Then we look in some existing security standards and technologies for mobile agent to analysis their goals that are keeping platform of security against a malicious mobile agent. Finally, we introduce a new framework for improvement of mobile agent security in order to secure the code and protect its integrity.