A Strategic Review of Existing Mobile Agent-Based Intrusion Detection Systems

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) is defined as a component that analyses system and user op-erations in computer and network systems in search of activities considered undesirable from se-curity perspectives. Applying mobile agent (MA) to intrusion detection design is a recent devel-opment and it is aimed at effective intrusion detection in distributed environment. From the litera-ture, it is clear that most MA-based IDS that are available are not quite effective because their time to detection is high and detect limited intrusions.This paper proposes a way of classifying a typical IDS and then strategically reviews the existing mobile agent-based IDSs focusing on each of the categories of the classification, for example architecture, mode of data collection, the tech-niques for analysis, and the security of these intelligent codes. Their strengths and problems are stated wherever applicable. Furthermore, suggested ways of improving on current MA-IDS de-signs are presented in order to achieve an efficient mobile agent-based IDS for future security of distributed network