Appendix

In Analysis Mode, a file-type agnostic description of the data is logged to an XML report. The structure of the XML report is defined by an Analysis Report XSD, designed to make this as easy as possible to parse and process. The analysis report co...

Embedded Engine Release Versioning The Embedded Engine is released as package of multiple libraries, wrappers and scripts. As such, defining typical semantic versioning (e.g. based on discrete API changes) can be a challenge. Currently the Embed...

File Type ID Enumeration The following table details the possible enumeration that can be returned from the Embedded Engine file determination APIs.

File Type Specifications PDF Specification Validated Against: PDF Reference (third edition) Adobe Portable Document Format Version 1.7. Note: Glasswall supports PDF Reference (third edition) Adobe Portable Document Format from Version 1.3....

Glasswall provides 64-bit version of a Dynamic-link Libraries (.DLL) for Windows and/or Shared Objects (.SO) for Linux operating systems that can analyse and protect files up to the size of 2GiB (2,147,483,648 bytes), provided that other internal l...

The table below lists the Embedded Engine features and components that are currently available across the Glasswall supported platforms and architectures.

Overview Automatic corrections back to the file specification are performed upon file regeneration. The purpose of this is to enable the Glasswall Embedded Engine to remove threats that are hidden within the file structure, as well preventing the p...

Content Management policies are a set of content management switches that can be applied to a particular file type. The content management switch is used to identify a file element type and associated action. The content management setting spe...

Glasswall provides the ability to quickly determine the file type for a given file without fully processing the file, provided that the file format is supported by the Glasswall engine. This enables the user to accurately determine the file type reg...

Overview In Protect Mode, Content Management Policies allow control of various file content types such as file attachments, executable code, interactive form content and a number of actions (e.g., external links or the execution of JavaScripts). Th...

The Glasswall Embedded Engine provides a pattern matching capability in the following file formats: Microsoft Binary Office Office Open XML ASCII and UTF-8 plain text *(when enable_text_support is specified true under sysConfig )* ...

Reported content items and associated actions carried out by the Glasswall engine are logged in an XML analysis report. Each unique content item entry has a unique issue ID associated to it. Issue IDs are generated when files are processed in Analy...