Study on Agents Based Meta-Heuristic Approach for Cyber Security Defense Mechanism

Oxford defines cyber security as ‘the state of being protected against the criminal or unauthorized use of electronic data, or the measures taken to achieve this’. Authors’ attempts here to describe an agent based meta heuristic approach to infrastructure cyber defense mechanism where a team of human and software ants mitigate security threat posed in the cyber world. The DigitalAnts^TM system architecture will wander through entire network in identifying the invaders i.e. viruses, trojan horses etc which are said to create a potential threat to our systems. Paper discusses a theoretical version of this concept.