Malware Threats in Digital Preservation: Extending the evidence base

Samaras, E; Pennock, M; Day, M

Malware Threats in Digital Preservation: Extending the evidence base

Samaras, E

Pennock, M Day, M

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Issue Date:: 2019-09-18

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dc.contributor.author	Samaras, E https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5683-722X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pennock, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Day, M	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-09-18	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2019	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/136368
dc.description.abstract	Virus checking is an established process in most pre-ingest digital preservation workflows. It is typically included as part of a general threat model response and there has to date been relatively little research into the virus checking function specifically within a long term context. The British Library recently began a small research project to explore this issue, using data from a legacy digital collection established by the ‘Flashback’ project and supplementary data provided by the UK Web Archive. Our poster presents this research and findings to date, raising questions about the overhead of virus checking at scale, when organizations should virus-check content, and the legacy capabilities of anti-virus software.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	16th International Conference on Digital Preservation iPRES 2019	en_US
dc.title	Malware Threats in Digital Preservation: Extending the evidence base	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Students
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

Virus checking is an established process in most pre-ingest digital preservation workflows. It is typically included as part of a general threat model response and there has to date been relatively little research into the virus checking function specifically within a long term context. The British Library recently began a small research project to explore this issue, using data from a legacy digital collection established by the ‘Flashback’ project and supplementary data provided by the UK Web Archive. Our poster presents this research and findings to date, raising questions about the overhead of virus checking at scale, when organizations should virus-check content, and the legacy capabilities of anti-virus software.

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