Re: Email Attachment Blocking

["Jason C. Belford" <jason.belford () OIT GATECH EDU>]

Steve,

We have a base list of extensions we considered "possibly
harmful" (see below).  Each department chooses what action they want
applied with these attachments (rename or drop).   In addition, any
department can add additional extensions to the list.  The default,
which is used for our students and any group that had not specified
otherwise, is to rename the attachment.  However, these actions are
only applied to *external* (any message that touched an off-campus
address) messages.

ade adp bas bat chm cla ass cmd com cpl crt eml ail exe hlp hta inf
ins js jse lnk msc msi mst ocx pcd pif reg scr sct shb shs url vb vbs
vbe wsf wsh wsc exe lnk pif

--Jason


On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Steve Brukbacher wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm taking an informal survey to see if others are currently blocking
> any email attachments at the mail server (or component of your mail
> server infrastructure).  If so, which ones?
>
> If yes, does the email simply get dropped or does the sender and/or
> recipient receive some sort of notification?
>
> Any comments on how you worked with your user community on this
> would be
> helpful as well.
>
> --
> Steve Brukbacher, CISSP
> University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
> Information Security Architect

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Jason C. Belford
Information Security Manager
Office of Information Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Phone: (404) 894 - 6159