Software agents and computer network security.

Pikoulas, John; Mannion, Mike; Buchanan, William J

Abstract

Preventing unauthorised access to corporate information systems is essential for many organisations. To address this problem we built a security enhancement software system using software agents, in which a core software agent resides on a server and user end software agents reside at each user workstation. By downloading a pattern of typical user behaviour and rules governing invalid behaviour from a core agent to each user end agent, all decisions and actions about atypical or invalid user behaviour can be taken by a user agent. This permits security detection to continue even when the core agent fails to operate

Citation

Pikoulas, J., Mannion, M., & Buchanan, W. J. (2000, April). Software agents and computer network security

• Start Date: Apr 7, 2000
• End Date: Apr 7, 2000
• Publication Date: 2000
• Deposit Date: Dec 22, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 22, 2010
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 211-217
• Book Title: Engineering of Computer Based Systems, 2000. (ECBS 2000) Proceedings. Seventh IEEE International Conference and Workshopon the
• ISBN: 0-7695-604-6
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ECBS.2000.839879
• Keywords: corporate information systems; security enhancement software; user end agent; software agents; user behaviour
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3996
• Contract Date: Dec 22, 2010