It is celeberation time

We had a small celebration in the NJ office. We were happy to note the three major new efforts on the infrastructure side. They are:

VPN

I have been aiming to get the VPN setup so that we can have a secure inter office communication as well as occational on the road/home communications. It finally came to frution a few months ago when were were able to configure the FreeSWAN package on our IPCop box. We have a open source command line client thanks to Marcus Muller. We also have SoftRemote client which works well. We plan to give USB Tokens for two factor authentication for the VPN clients.

Anti Spam Gateway

Many of our folks were getting tons of spam everyday. Ricardo used to get over 200 a day. It was time to do something about it, Thanks to Debian, Postfix, Amavis, SpamAssassin, DCC, Vipul's Razor, RulesEmporium we now have a very good Anti-Spam solution which catches I believe over 90% of spam.

Replacing our aging Exchange Mail Server

Our workhorse mail server box has given us a honorable service of over 5 years. We also needed to move away from Exchange Server mainly to worry less about security problems. Thanks to Debian, Courier and OpenLDAP we now have a good mail server solution. We also have new Dell server class hardware with hot-swappable disks and standby box.

The main man behind all this is Naga. So we gave him an award to recognize his effort. Here are some pictures.


Naga receiving the award from Ricardo 


Naga with his award