Distributed Intrusion Detection System Using Mobile Agent

The goal of Distributed Intrusion Detection System is to analyze events on the network and identify attacks. The increasing number of network security related incidents makes it necessary for organizations to actively protect their sensitive data with the installation of intrusion detection systems (IDS). There is a difficulty to find intrusion in an distributed network segment from inside as well as from outside network. Intrusion detection system studies very huge amount of data in a network. Intrusion detection system also check that load additional significant is not placed in the system and also not placed in network of monitoring. The Centralized intrusion detection system having certain drawbacks which later on comes with the idea of mobile agent. There is no central point of failure because there is no central station in an agent based Intrusion detection system. Agents can detect malicious activity. After finding malicious activity in a network, predefined actions were taken by agent against it. The system having superior performance than central sniffing Intrusion detection system. The system saves network resources while other distributed Intrusion detection system creates bottleneck in the system by activating too many sniffers in network. Usage of distributed model based on Mobile agent platform is one of the major motivation. This paper presents some architectural approaches of an Distributed Intrusion Detection System using Mobile Agent and survey of Distributed Intrusion Detection System using Mobile agents.