ensuring uploaded files are safe

Question

My boss has come to me and asked how to enure a file uploaded through web page is safe. He wants people to be able to upload pdfs and tiff images (and the like) and his real

Answer 1

It depends on your company's budget but there are hardware devices and software applications that can sit between your web server and the outside world to perform these functions. Some of these are hardware firewalls with anti-virus software built in. Sometimes they are called application gateways or application proxies.

Here are links to an open source gateway that uses Clam-AV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Anti-Virus http://gatewayav.sourceforge.net/faq.html