RE: GFI Mail Essential / Security

  • From: "Cresswell, Charles" <charlesc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:34:26 +0100

It depends how big your company is. For small to medium size businesses
there's nothing you can do about a DoS as you need bandwidth coming out of
your ears. The solution I would tend to go for is direct all your traffic
through your service provider (ie a smarthost) and let them deal with the
DoS issues. If you deny all SMTP traffic except from the smarthost on your
outer firewall it also deals with the open relay issue.
 
SMTP doesnt have much in the way of secure communication unless you use
something like PGP, but that requires the receiving clients to support it
too. If its sensitive information passing between remote offices or
businesses you deal with on a day to day basis then a secure connection such
as VPN would probably be better.
 
Charles Cresswell, IS Manager
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The Association of Corporate Treasurers 
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