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

2 SmartSoft Network Solutions, Inc. Team Members >Tayfun Şen >Özden Meren >Sedat Zelyüt >Hakan Özadam >Akın Öztürk A highly motivated team of five people:

3 SmartSoft Network Solutions, Inc. Our Outline >Problem definition >Current solutions >Our solution >What makes us different >Current progress >Contact information

4 SmartSoft Network Solutions, Inc. 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

5 SmartSoft Network Solutions, Inc. Current Solutions >Two products for demonstration purposes: Websense and DansGuardian. >One is a a commercial product and the other from the open-source community.

6 SmartSoft Network Solutions, Inc. 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.

7 SmartSoft Network Solutions, Inc. Current Solutions >Dansguardian: >Pros: open-source, free. >Cons: doesn’t have much features, hard to install – maintain,

8 SmartSoft Network Solutions, Inc. Our Solution: SmartGuardian SmartGuardian Protecting 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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10 SmartSoft Network Solutions, Inc. 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.

11 SmartSoft Network Solutions, Inc. 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.

12 SmartSoft Network Solutions, Inc. 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

13 SmartSoft Network Solutions, Inc. 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.

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