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Also, there is a need of an autonomous behavior to reduce human intervention and assure environment\u2019s consistency. This autonomous and distributed behavior leads to the definition and integration of existing and new technologies to enable autonomous distributed management. This is fulfilled by providing paradigms that bring awareness about the surroundings and enabled tools to manage and adapt the environment\u2019s resources. The main problem is to dynamically provide auto\u2010configuration of networks to deal with the frequent changes which results from users\u2019 roaming, changing services constraints, and changing services themselves, and adding, upgrading or removing policies. The outcome of these issues is a dynamic system with complex management. Hence, this paper proposes the integration of different techniques to provide an autonomous, distributed, and secure management including auto\u2010configuration, adaptation, and auto\u2010protection of pervasive environments. Then, policies control the behavior of the environment, devices configuration and the enforcement of security mechanisms to protect sensitive data. Also, mobile agents are employed to distribute management tasks across the distributed environment. In order to provide auto\u2010protection capabilities, the autonomous behavior of the environment have to be secured. Actually, this security issue is addressed by defining an agent\u2010based Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) with X.509 certificates. The agent ensures then that the security functions are applied across all the distributed networks, where specific agents are responsible for conveying necessary information and certificates to local environments. 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