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.