Tilson T. Kephas

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Federated States of Micronesia
APT/PITA Meeting on SPAM and SECURITY October
3-5, 2005 Nadi, Fiji
Tilson T. Kephas Network Administrator/Spectrum
Manager Dept. of Transportation, Communications
Infrastructure National Government Federated
States of Micronesia
P.O Box PS-2 Palikir, Pohnpei FM 96941 Tel
[phone] Fax [phone] Email
transcom_at_mail.fm Web http//www.ict.fm
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Outline

• Introduction
• Profile
• Security Challenges/Initiatives
• SPAM Challenges/Initiatives
• Government SPAM Policy
• Conclusion

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FSM Profile

• Population.. 107,000 (2K Census)
• Population Density. 395 person p/sq. mile
• Average Household size.. 6 person p/hh
• Median Age. 18.9
• GDP. 228.3Million (FY 04)
• Estimates FY 05 239.5 Million
• GDP per capita.... 2,114 (FY 04)
• Telephone Density.. 8.02 overall
• Network Digitization
• Switching.. 100
• Transmission. 100

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Satellite Links
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Security Challenges

• Security only became a consideration when threats
  began to emerge
• ISP lacks security experts
• Increased number of broadband subscribers
  increased risk in its network
• Lack of trained security administrators in
  various Government LAN
• Unaware of Phishing scam emails
• Lack of educational awareness on such threats
• Lack of policies to mitigate such risk

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Security Initiatives

• ISP maintains two anti-virus servers
• One server runs the enterprise edition of
  Symantec Anti-Virus
• To protect the machines in both the corporate and
  public networks
• Other server runs Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
• To scan all email transiting through the ISPs
  email system
• Both servers are configured for virus definition
  updates
• ISP enforces strict policy against hacker-type
  activities
• Attacks into FSMTC network from external sources
  will resulted in the banning of the sources
  entire network

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SPAM Challenges

• Unsolicited, unwanted, inappropriate bulk email
  are still on the rise
• 100 of SPAM emails originated from outside of
  FSM
• Spammers always find ways to deliver SPAM email
  on going practice
• SPAM clogs the transmission pipe and deplete
  storage space
• Lack of SPAM policy
• Lack of educational awareness of such threats

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SPAM Initiatives

• ISP
• maintains black list of all known sources of SPAM
• has evaluated a few anti-spam applications, most
  notable Symantecs premium anti-spam add-on
  package to Mail Security
• has begun to investigate Sender Policy Framework
  (SPF) and Digital Keys
• has just started exploring migration to a new
  email platform.
• The Government is working on formulating a
  Network Security and SPAM Policy

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Ultimatum Solution for SPAM
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