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Re: Blocking E-Mail Attachment Types


From: Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:36:08 -0400

Hi,

Here is our pointer <http://www.columbia.edu/acis/email/filters.html> - we filter anything that can execute.

Joel Rosenblatt

Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel


--On Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:59 PM -0400 Steve Lewis <sgl3 () LEHIGH EDU> wrote:

Hi All,

Forgive me if you've already seen this on another list...

Does anyone here block specific e-mail file attachment types? I'm curious to see how common (or uncommon) this practice 
is.

Thanks,
Steve Lewis
Lehigh University LTS




Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel

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