Protection and Security of Mobile Agent Transactions

In the past previous years the computer systems have evolved from monolithic computing device to much complex client-server environment. 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. It can produce very good results in limited resources or in deficient environment where bandwidth, memory are significant constraint. The main area of discussion is the Protection and security of mobile agent Transactions on malicious host. Here a malicious host refers to a system in a network which can take advantage of the vulnerabilities of a mobile agent that has come to the host machine to get its work done.