Review of Security Issues for Mobile Agent Technology

In the recent time the computer systems have evolved from monolithic computing device to much complex client-server environment. Mobile-agent paradigm is one such technology. It has numerous application where it can be beneficial, to name a few areas where the mobile-agents have potential deployment are database search, distributed systems and e-commerce. This technology has given a new direction to networking. Because of mobility of mobile agent, the security problems becomes more complicated and have become a bottleneck for development and maintenance of mobile agent technology especially in security sensitive applications such as e-commerce, military application scientific applications etc. This paper discusses about the mobile-agent, architecture of mobile agent, what are the various security issues that should be resolve for better performance, that can affect the transmission and reception of information. In last, in this paper we discuss the counter measures for above mentioned security issues for better performance of the mobile agent technology.