Arquitectura para escaneo de puertos usando agentes móviles

Abstract

This article a software architecture approach for scanning ports is done using mobile agents, aiming network traffic monitoring detecting vulnerabilities in operating systems’ logic ports. The exposed architecture allows local executions in every computing device; it aggregates communication mechanisms to the agents, routes planning, choosing best route for each assigned agent in a network host, given correct task assignment in best moment and scenario achieving best mobile agent system possible takin into account that the amount of architectural details depends on each system size. This solution gives high availability of distributed environment and diminished network traffic by using intelligent agents allowing a communication to other agents informing a probability of a security attack to a certain port. The architecture is validated through Scan Mobile UD prototype, being developed in Java language technology implementing Aglets, and tested in a developed network, proving agents’ mobile effectivity to detect logical network vulnerabilities risks in proposed architecture.