Authors:
Raúl Herbosa
1
;
Gabriel Díaz
2
and
Manuel Castro
2
Affiliations:
1
Grupo Tecnológico e Industrial GMV S.A., Spain
;
2
UNED (Spanish University for Distance Eeducation), Spain
Keyword(s):
Spam, email, virus, phishing, malware, GPL, open source, secure management, email services.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Computing
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Information Assurance
;
Management of Computing Security
;
Secure Software Development Methodologies
;
Security Engineering
;
Security in Information Systems
;
Security Information Systems Architecture and Design and Security Patterns
;
Security Requirements
;
Service and Systems Design and Qos Network Security
;
Services Science
Abstract:
In this paper new system is presented for securing the email service, minimizing the risks associated with spam and malicious software associated with the email messages, valid for any organization. To build it, several free software tools under GPL license are used, integrated over a generic hardware platform. The approach has been the typical of an integration project. The concrete needs have been identified, related to email threats, free software tools under GPL have been identified that meet our needs and the integration tasks have been made, suggesting hardware and software architecture to support our objectives. One crucial criterion for the selection has been that the tools must provide working information records, i.e. file logs and tools to treat them for the different covered subsystems. Several tools have been developed also to complete the original functionality of them. The resulting system, nowadays in use in a big company in Spain, is a flexible and effective one, tha
t filters quickly and exhaustively every incoming and outgoing message, eliminating successfully more than 80% of the received messages, that result to be spam or malware.
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