Rummage the passive email monitoring system for enterprise networks

Abstract

Information retrieval systems have grown to cover complex tasks of information privacy and security. Where information is assuming more important role in corporate life, there is intense need for developing systems to monitor privacy breaches. RUMMAGE tries to attack the domain from the perspective of email analysis. Data mining techniques have largely been deployed in the domain of network security. RUMMAGE carries a further step by extending the idea to email analysis domains. Information Retrieval systems provide the basic mechanism to be followed in the analysis of email communication. Passive systems have proved to be a great asset in the domain of network security. Being passive provides a lot of power to administrators to analyze the system without imposing any burden on underlying network. RUMMAGE is a passive system that analyses the email text intelligently. It proposes the idea of automated passive analysis of email information. The project attacks the problem by starting to capture the email traffic from network backbone by filtering out unwanted data. Captured emails are disintegrated into fundamental components for further analysis. Intelligent data mining techniques are employed to classify the text correctly.