Securing Mobile Agent Communities

John Premjeet Page

Computer Science and Software Engineering

Monash University

Friday, 30th September 2005
9-30am - 11am

Monash University, Caulfield Campus
Room B5.50A, Computer Science Department
(Building B, 5th Floor, Room 50A).

Abstract:

For several years, the lack of a secure computing infrastructure has hindered the development of commercial mobile agent based applications. While various approaches for meeting these security issues have been proposed, they have lacked the focus to meet the challenges of a dynamically changing environment within which mobile agents operate. The seminar will discuss the facets of mobile agent communities while highlighting the security vulnerabilities of mobile agents.

The seminar will present an Integrated Security Framework (ISF) for combating the security vulnerabilities faced by mobile agent communities. The ISF consists of a self-executing security examination schema (SENSE) and a mutual support mechanism (Buddy model) for securing the operations of mobile agent communities. The seminar will give an overview of the ISF and discuss in detail the architecture and operation of the SENSE schema.

More information about the security aspects of mobile agents and the PhD project can be found at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jpage/mobile_agents.htm.

Biosketch:

John Premjeet Page is a final year PhD candidate, with CSIT, Monash University, Melbourne. His PhD focuses on the Security of mobile agent communities. At Monash University, his PhD supervisors are Assoc. Prof. Arkady Zaslavsky and Dr. Maria Indrawan.

Prior to joining Monash, he was working as a software engineer. His last degree is a Masters in Computer Applications from The Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India.