Is there documentation availaable? Where?
Thanks,
Jeff Heisner
Nasdaq Information Security
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>From: John Lines[SMTP:John .
Lines @
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co .
uk]
>Sent: Friday, October 10, 1997 11:07 AM
>To: Davis, Rob
>Cc: firewalls @
GreatCircle .
COM; Galvin, Dean
>Subject: Content Vector Protocol - was Re: Keyword filtering of email
>through firewall
>
>Rob Davis wrote:
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>> 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.
>
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> John Lines
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