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Mail Server Security: Potential Vulnerabilities and Protection Methods

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Dennis Turpitka
Mail Server Security: Potential Vulnerabilities and Protection Methods

This article covers the topic of email server security. Security measures covered here will allow you to greatly increase the level of protection of your email server and prevent any successful attacks.

Written by:
Apriorit security testing team
(special thanks to Stas Ignatenko, Denys Rudov, and Dmitriy Yurko)

 

Introduction

Challenges of server software security

Nowadays, with the constant development of informational technology, the role of cyber security gets ever bigger. While it is impossible to imagine the modern world without constant communications over the network, almost all valuable data that often acts as a target for attacks is stored in various forms on the servers. Not to mention that the stability of the whole system depends on the servers. This is why the servers are very attractive targets for malicious attacks.

Email server security

Security of mail servers, among others, is a particularly important question. This question is important because email is one of the most popular means of communication and doing business. And for businesses in particular, loss of confidential information can result in large financial loses. It is also important for the server to run stable, so that users are able to access it at any time. When the server runs unstable, it can lead to the loss of customers.

Standard methods of software protection

In order to avoid data loss, problems with stability and other troubles, we need to adhere to the general recommendations on how to setup an email server and monitor its security in order to detect and immediately fix any vulnerabilities. This is the main topic of this article. We will show examples of security measures and various problems that can arise if you don’t adhere to them, as well as some features of certain email servers and example of their vulnerabilities together with the general recommendations with regards to testing.

 Mail Server Security: Potential Vulnerabilities and Protection Methods

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