Some details
SITUATION
Apriorit team is working with a big security vendor on a proactive enterprise security solution. The task was Skype control functionality with a set of monitoring and management features: activity monitoring, message censoring, action blocking. The possibilities provided by public Skype APIs (skype4com library) were not enough for the required features, in particular, action blocking and full
monitoring.SOLUTION
The task was to research the core logic of Skype application and detect the points to set up custom hooks. The main goal was to build hook architecture so that the solution survived frequent Skype updates.
IMPACT
The full-functional Skype security management component was completed in 1.5 man-years of research and development. The provided solution has survived several years of regular Skype updates with minimal support.