A distributed Intrusion Detection and Response System based on mobile autonomous agents using social insects communication paradigm

Abstract The ever increasing connectivity of current computer environments makes traditional Intrusion and Detection Systems more and more inefficient. The ability of moving processes across networks brings new security problems, but also gives us new ways of dealing with these environments. In this paper, we propose an architecture for a distributed stealth Intrusion Detection and Response System (IDRS) based on mobile agents mimicking behaviors of social insects. We present the motivations of an approach that solves several problems actually unchallenged and offers many new ways of thinking future IDRSs. We also depict the foundations of our architecture, discuss its main points, and expose partial results obtained from a prototype. Finally, implementation issues and future work are presented.