Defining general system settings and notifications

Before creating and managing DLP policies, use the Settings pages in the Data Security module of the Security Manager to:

Steps

  • Configure user directory server settings. This makes it possible for administrators to resolve user details during analysis and enhance the details displayed with the incident.

    See User directory settings section, and Adding or editing user directory server information section.

  • Set up alerts. This determines when administrators receive alerts from the system, such as when a subscription is about to expire or disk space is reaching its limit.
    See Alerts section, and Setting up email propertiessection.
    Note: The same outgoing mail server is used for alerts, notifications, scheduled tasks, and email workflow. If the server is changed for one function, it is changed for all of them.
  • (Forcepoint DLP only) Set up notifications. Notifications are email messages that are sent when policy breaches are discovered.

    Forcepoint DLP offers a built-in notification template, “Default notification,” that can be edited as required. To ensure that a notification is sent when an action plan is triggered, either edit the Default notification or create a new notification and edit an action plan to use it.

    See Notifications section, and Adding a new message section.