SpamCheetah internals

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SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control OpenBSD greylisting based spam control Girish Venkatachalam Chennai [email protected] October 30, 2009

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SpamCheetah is an OpenBSD greylist + tarpit + blacklist spam filter. It does not even allow spam to get in. This talk shows your the internal workings as well as some ideas about the business model of the parent company Gayatri Hitech

Transcript of SpamCheetah internals

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SpamCheetah - revolution in spamcontrol

OpenBSD greylisting based spam control

Girish Venkatachalam

Chennai

[email protected]

October 30, 2009

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What is SpamCheetah?

Not greylisting alone, very different fromtraditional meaning of greylisting

The tarpit does not even allow spam to enter yournetwork, protect your network resources from dirtyspammers!

Revolution in spam control

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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What is SpamCheetah?

Not greylisting alone, very different from traditionalmeaning of greylisting

The tarpit does not even allow spam to enter yournetwork, protect your network resources from dirtyspammers!

Revolution in spam control

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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What is SpamCheetah?

Not greylisting alone, very different from traditionalmeaning of greylisting

The tarpit does not even allow spam to enter yournetwork, protect your network resources from dirtyspammers!

Revolution in spam control

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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Why is spam control so important?

E-mail the most important application on theInternet

Every mail server needs a spam filtering engine

But I don’t like the term ”spam filter”. I callSpamCheetah as a spam blocker or spam controlapplication

Massive worldwide market with huge potential

This talk speaks about the technical aspects ofSpamCheetah and how it does its job so well

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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Why is spam control so important?

E-mail the most important application on the Internet

Every mail server needs a spam filtering engine

But I don’t like the term ”spam filter”. I callSpamCheetah as a spam blocker or spam controlapplication

Massive worldwide market with huge potential

This talk speaks about the technical aspects ofSpamCheetah and how it does its job so well

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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Why is spam control so important?

E-mail the most important application on the Internet

Every mail server needs a spam filtering engine

But I don’t like the term ”spam filter”. I callSpamCheetah as a spam blocker or spam controlapplication

Massive worldwide market with huge potential

This talk speaks about the technical aspects ofSpamCheetah and how it does its job so well

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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Why is spam control so important?

E-mail the most important application on the Internet

Every mail server needs a spam filtering engine

But I don’t like the term ”spam filter”. I callSpamCheetah as a spam blocker or spam controlapplication

Massive worldwide market with huge potential

This talk speaks about the technical aspects ofSpamCheetah and how it does its job so well

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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Why is spam control so important?

E-mail the most important application on the Internet

Every mail server needs a spam filtering engine

But I don’t like the term ”spam filter”. I callSpamCheetah as a spam blocker or spam controlapplication

Massive worldwide market with huge potential

This talk speaks about the technical aspects ofSpamCheetah and how it does its job so well

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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Status of SpamCheetah

Close to 5 downloads a day

Selling as a hardware appliance in India

Every mail server needs a spam filtering engine

Everyone with a mail server needs spam protection!

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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Status of SpamCheetah

Close to 5 downloads a day

Selling as a hardware appliance in India

Every mail server needs a spam filtering engine

Everyone with a mail server needs spam protection!

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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Status of SpamCheetah

Close to 5 downloads a day

Selling as a hardware appliance in India

Every mail server needs a spam filtering engine

Everyone with a mail server needs spam protection!

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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Status of SpamCheetah

Close to 5 downloads a day

Selling as a hardware appliance in India

Every mail server needs a spam filtering engine

Everyone with a mail server needs spam protection!

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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Status of SpamCheetah

Close to 5 downloads a day

Selling as a hardware appliance in India

Every mail server needs a spam filtering engine

Everyone with a mail server needs spam protection!

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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Business model of SpamCheetah

I did the online version on August 6th andrechristened Anjal as SpamCheetah

Three companies based on online downloads model -Zohocorp Inc(˜1000 employees), Vembu (˜100employees) and Jijitechnologies Kovilpatti(˜10 employees)

Online business model requires competitive pricing andunique product expertise, Google Adwords and somepatience

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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Business model of SpamCheetah

I did the online version on August 6th and rechristenedAnjal as SpamCheetahThree companies based on online downloads model- Zohocorp Inc(˜1000 employees), Vembu (˜100employees) and Jijitechnologies Kovilpatti(˜10employees)

Online business model requires competitive pricing andunique product expertise, Google Adwords and somepatience

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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Business model of SpamCheetah

I did the online version on August 6th and rechristenedAnjal as SpamCheetah

Three companies based on online downloads model -Zohocorp Inc(˜1000 employees), Vembu (˜100employees) and Jijitechnologies Kovilpatti(˜10 employees)

Online business model requires competitive pricingand unique product expertise, Google Adwords andsome patience

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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SpamCheetah implementation details

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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SpamCheetah implementation details II

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UNIX daemons in SpamCheetah

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control

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SpamCheetah load balancing and failover

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SpamCheetah links

Discussion and questions?1 SpamCheetah’s website

2 Gayatri Hitech - the company behind SpamCheetah

3 OpenBSD papers

Girish Venkatachalam SpamCheetah - revolution in spam control