Policy Setup

The default policy provided with Forcepoint Email Security Cloud allows most organizations to get up and running quickly and easily with minimal configuration.

The administrator can modify or create new policies as necessary to manage email traffic to comply with business needs, goals and objectives of the organization.

Policies encompass several elements, including:

• Rules for spam and virus protection
• Phrases and lexical rules for content filtering
• Notifications of quarantined email

Policy decisions and levels of control may be different for different user groups, but in all cases should be constructed to allow users to effectively use email as a business tool while protecting the company from spam, objectionable or illegal content, and viruses.

A default policy is provided with Forcepoint Email Security Cloud, and administrators can also create custom policies to support mail aliases or domains that require differing configurations.

To access the current policies in your account and to create new policies, click Email in the portal’s main menu bar, then click Policies.

Click a policy name to view and edit the policy settings. Note that each policy has multiple tabs to configure.