SmartSoft Network Solutions, Inc. Project Presentation 21/12/2005.

SmartSoft Network Solutions, Inc.

Project Presentation21/12/2005

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Team Members

>Tayfun Şen

>Özden Meren

>Sedat Zelyüt

>Hakan Özadam

>Akın Öztürk

A highly motivated team of five people:

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Our Outline

>Problem definition>Current solutions>Our solution>What makes us different>Current progress>Contact information

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Problem Definition> Companies and other organisations

lose/waste their resources because of wrongful internet usage

> Users of the shared Internet resources abuse its use (spamming, p2p, port scanning etc.)

> Security rules might be breached> Hackers may attack the system> As a result, controlling the Internet

access is inevitable

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Current Solutions

> Two products for demonstration purposes: Websense and DansGuardian.

> One is a a commercial product and the other from the open-source community.

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Current Solutions> Websense:

> Pros: Has many of the features we would like to develop

> Cons: expensive, not open-source, needs high end computers, two program structure on clients and servers.

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Current Solutions> Dansguardian:

> Pros: open-source, free.> Cons: doesn’t have much features,

hard to install – maintain,

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Our Solution: SmartGuardian

SmartGuardianProtecting your network

> Protection of the network from hackers

> Web content filtering> Logging user activities> Three main modules: SG Wall, SG

Crawler, SG Controller

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Our Solution: SmartGuardian

Main Properties:

> To be coded in mainly C++ and PHP> The target platform is Linux

systems.> Our development system is Fedora

Core 4, but we will port our software to work in other systems too.

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Our Modules> SG Wall: Main module. Controlling

the Internet access. To be coded in C++.

> SG Crawler: For data mining jobs. Will be using statistics, keywords to classify websites. To be coded in C++.

> SG Controller: For controlling the system & viewing actions. To be coded using PHP.

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What makes us different?

Our main advantages:

> Ease of use,> Extensive features, > Web site classification (not

downloading other’s lists)> Free (as in freedom) & > open-source

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Current Progress

> Like everyone else – Initial design is finished.

> Started learning NetWib Library and network programming.

> Researching about data mining. Google API? Weka Library?

> Prototype and Detailed design in light of our latest explorations.

Contact Information

Thanks for listening

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Contact us [email protected]

Any questions?

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