Directory Synchronization

Organizations that use Microsoft Active Directory, Lotus Domino, and other LDAP services can synchronize primary and secondary email addresses and groups into the portal. This has the following advantages:

• Administrators can manage email address and group details from the Active Directory instead of from the cloud service portal, greatly reducing the time spent maintaining service configuration.
• Scheduled synchronization means new employees in a company can be added to the cloud service automatically; likewise, those leaving can be removed from the service automatically.
• Improves spam detection by quarantining email sent to unknown users.
• Helps to prevent directory harvest attacks, by checking the validity of email addresses and domains when a server is trying to send large numbers of messages for the purposes of directory harvesting.

For full instructions on setting up and using directory synchronization, see Forcepoint Cloud Security Gateway Portal Help and the Directory Synchronization Client Administrator’s Guide, both available at the Forcepoint Support site.