Registering the DLP Module

With the DLP module, your email can be analyzed for regulatory compliance and acceptable use and protect sensitive data loss via email by enabling DLP policies on the page Main > Policy Management > Policies. Data loss prevention policies are enabled by default.

See Enabling data loss prevention policies for more information about activating DLP policies.

Email DLP policy options are configured in the Security Manager Data Security module (Main > Policy Management > DLP Policies > Manage Policies). A new policy wizard provides the steps for creating a new email DLP policy. See Forcepoint DLP Administrator Help.

If you plan to use email encryption functions, you must configure an email DLP policy with an action plan that includes message encryption. See Forcepoint DLP Administrator Help.

You can also create filter actions for use in a DLP policy action plan. See Creating and configuring a filter action for information.

You must register email appliances with the Forcepoint Email Security DLP Module in order to take advantage of its acceptable use, data loss prevention, and message encryption features. Registration is automatic when you enter a valid subscription key. Subsequent appliances are registered when you add them to the Security Manager from the Email Security module.

If the Status field in the Email Security module Settings > General > Data Loss Prevention page displays Unregistered, you must manually register with the Forcepoint Email Security DLP Module. The following steps detail how to manually register a standalone appliance manually with the email DLP Module: