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Due to end-to-end design principle in distributed applications, many emerging security problems could not be solved by conventional security technologies, such as firewalls and IDSs. To address these problems, we present a distributed dynamic μFirewall architecture based on mobile agents and KeyNote trust management system. In this architecture, KeyNote trust management system provides the scalable distributed control capability and supports a mechanism called “policy-updates on demand”. Mobile agents implement dynamic security policy reconfiguration and enhance the scalability. Each μFirewall is built with a packet filter and DTE-enhanced evaluator to enforce policy at the end points. A distributed intrusion detection and response (DIDR) system supports dynamic security capabilities and provides fast response to attacks from all possible sources. Our architecture is scalable, topology independent, and intrusion-tolerant.
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Jin, H., Xian, F., Han, Z., Li, S. (2002). A Distributed Dynamic μFirewall Architecture with Mobile Agents and KeyNote Trust Management System. In: Deng, R., Bao, F., Zhou, J., Qing, S. (eds) Information and Communications Security. ICICS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2513. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36159-6_2
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