Title: An intelligent proactive security system for cyber centres using Cognitive Agents

Authors: P. Venkataram, Jeremy Pitt, B. Sathish Babu, E. Mamdani

Addresses: Protocol Engineering and Technology Unit, Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. ' Intelligent Systems and Networks Research Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK. ' Protocol Engineering and Technology Unit, Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. ' Intelligent Systems and Networks Research Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK

Abstract: The computers at cyber centres are vulnerable. They can be used for various illegal activities. Only the system-level security solutions are not sufficient to prevent these activities completely. There is a need for an intelligent scheme which identifies culprits based on behaviours and actions. This paper proposes an intelligent and environment based proactive security system for cyber centres, using cognitive agents. The agents are used for belief generation, belief analysis and to execute suitable security actions and pro-actions. This method of controlling the cyber crime at usage level, will be the requisite step towards preventing Internet abuse.

Keywords: computer security; cyber centres; cognitive agents; cyber crime; belief generation; belief analysis; intelligent security; internet abuse.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICS.2008.020604

International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2008 Vol.2 No.3, pp.235 - 249

Published online: 01 Oct 2008 *

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