Study of the Security in Network Management Based on Mobile Agents

Study of the Security in Network Management Based on Mobile Agents

Security of mobile-agent based network management must be considered due to the widespread adoption of mobile agents in network management, which involves the protections of mobile agents, management station and managed devices. The integrated security model proposed in our paper incorporates the effective security countermeasures of these entities into a trusted execution environment and two security protection layers. Sandbox based on Java virtual machine and Java card independent on the network devices also with the cryptography technology in this model together protect the network management process.