Secure Email Attachment as a Service (SeaS)

Abstract

In this paper we describe Secure Email Attachment as a Service (SeaS) which aims to provide a scalable and secure storage solutions for email attachments. Email remains the main communication platform for corporate users. It is a challenge for IT administrators to manage the ever increasing email storage requirements and the use of large email attachments has worsened the problem both in terms of storage requirements and network performance. Cloud-based email solutions such as Office365 and Gmail sought to ease the burden on the IT administrators, but using such online email solutions has its risks as confidential information may be leaked to the cloud providers. SeaS combines the traditional security of corporate email servers while offloading the email attachments storage and management to the cloud in a secure manner.