Security in Agent Systems1.8 ConclusionWe will live in interesting times. Agent-based systems are still new enough that any attempt to predict the problems they will actually face is risky; the field changes every day. By the time you read this, there will no doubt have been developments that I would have included in this paper if the deadline had been later. But I hope that the considerations given here provide some flavor of the kinds of thinking needed to make agent systems secure, and the kinds of things that can go wrong if they are not.[ Top of Page | Previous Page | Next Page | Table of Contents ] |