NDLI: Assuring the safety of opening email attachments

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Balzer, R.
Copyright Year	2001
Abstract	A wrapper has been developed that monitors the runtime behavior of opened email attachments to ensure that these processes do not do anything harmful. The wrapper detects violations of process-specific rules establishing the acceptable (and safe) behavior of these processes relative to four resources: the file system, the system registry, inter-host communication, and process spawning. The wrapper can determine whether an operation is being performed by the native application or by active content within the email attachment and applies a different (and presumably more stringent) set of rules to the latter. When attempted violations are detected, the user is notified and informed of the severity of the violation. The user determines whether to allow or prohibit the offending operation. The violation, the user's response, and the initiating email and attachment-obtained from the email client-are logged.
Sponsorship	DARPA
Starting Page	257
Ending Page	262
File Size	590718
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769512127
DOI	10.1109/DISCEX.2001.932177
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2001-06-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Safety Switches Operating systems Middleware Monitoring File systems Control systems Security Runtime Animation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

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