Rob Davis wrote:
> This is tangentially related to firewalls, so I apologize in advance.
> If anyone knows of a more appropriate venue for this, please let me
> know.
>
> I have a multi-national customer with approximately 200 sites that will
> soon be connected with a WAN and additionally have Internet access
> through some yet to be determined firewall.
>
> They would like a mechanism that would allow them to detect
> incoming/outgoing Internet mail that did not meet "company policies".
> This could be sexual content, frivilous material, trade secrets, etc.
> The obvious places to check are the firewall and mail server(s).
>
> I realize that there are still a million ways to get the info out and
> it's probably a bad idea, but I'm curious about potential commercial or
> custom-built applications and the price.
>
TIS Gauntlet 4.0 (and some other firewalls - I believe) support something
called
Content Vectoring Protocol (CVP) - which I have not really looked into yet. It
allows you to pass email messages, or attachments, or web pages to a CVP
server running on your internal network. From the documentation this can
then scan for viruses, or for undesireable content.
I dont know if CVP is documented anywhere - you may be able use
a firewall which supports it, and write or buy in a scanning engine which
would meet the company policy.
John Lines
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