jt-email-security-tutorial

Email Security AndAnti-Spam TutorialNLANR/Internet2 Joint TechsColumbus, Ohio July 18, 2004Joe St Sauver, Ph.D.University of Oregon Computing Centerjoe@uoregon.eduhttp://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/jt-email-security/IntroductionA Little About This Talk• Paul Love was good enough to invite me to dothis tutorial today• I’m not sure there’s much to be said about spamand email security that hasn’t already been said,but I’ll see if I can’t find at least a few new thingsto share with you this afternoon.• Some of the information we’re going to covermay be “old news” for some of you, and for that,I apologize; folks attending may have radicallydifferent levels of expertise.3Sticking To The Script• Because we have a lot to cover, and becausemany spam fighting folks from yourinstitutions who may not be attending today,I've prepared this tutorial in some detail andwill try to "stick to the script."• This is a good news/bad news thing: if you'relooking at this presentation after the fact, you'llbe able to follow what was covered; the badnews is that if you're in the audience today,there won't be a lot of "surprises" mentionedduring the tutorial that aren’t in this handout. 4Format of Today’s Tutorial• We’re going to begin by talking about emailsecurity• We’ll take a little break• After the break we’ll talk about anti-spammeasures• At the end we can talk about email securityissues or spam issues you may be confronting,either here or over beers ...