Intelligent agents in support of internet security

Internet today is the main medium rapidly delivering information that we need. The information is delivered via a vast number of services that make our life become faster and more conscious. The question is at what price? The solutions devised by humans are prone to errors, which furthermore entail a new type of security challenge – cyber crime. With this paper we try to show that autonomous intelligent agent based systems are able to support or even offload humans in bringing Internet Security to the next level. The related research is focused on analyzing network information flows, building knowledge base and applying reasoning techniques that would allow agents to track suspicious network activities, identify and profile users and finally indicate and prevent cyber crime. The main applications for this solution are forensics and law enforcement support.