A software agent based approach for fraud detection in network crimes

There has been continuous effort by organizations to secure their information resources maintained in computer network infrastructures against security threats arising out of network related frauds. This paper presents a software agent based approach to detect such frauds and provides a means to gather relevant information about the nature of fraud that can be used for forensic analysis. A distributed agent deploy architecture has been presented to observe, gather and record data that can be used in detecting frauds. The applicability of the approach has been demonstrated for a network fraud scenario caused by the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) attack.