MagicNET: Security System for Development, Validation and Adoption of Mobile Agents

Current research in the area of mobile agents' security mainly deals with protection and security for agents and agents' runtime platforms. Mobile agent systems usually do not provide an extensive security methodology for the entire agent's life cycle, from agent's creation to its deployment and execution. In this paper we propose a comprehensive secure system for deployment of mobile agents. The system provides methodology that spans a number of phases in agent's lifetime: it starts from agent creation and ends with agent's execution. It addresses classification, validation, publishing, discovery, adoption, authentication and authorization of agents. Our system is based on secure web services and uses RBAC XACML policies and SAML protocol.