Forcepoint Data Security Cloud | App Security Administrative Guide

Draft | 2026-03-18

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Protect
The Protect section is the primary area for adding and managing your applications you wish to protect.
Configuring Advanced Threat Protection
Forcepoint Data Security Cloud | App Security provides Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) via partnerships with an antimalware provider.
Understanding supported file types
Describes the various types of file formats that are supported for scanning.
Viewing Forcepoint Data Security Cloud | App Security supported file MIME types

Introduction
Forcepoint Data Security Cloud | App Security provide data security and access management for SaaS applications, ensuring safe and compliant cloud usage. Security teams rely on CASB to perform the following types of functions:
Product updates
Explore the details of newly introduced and updated features here, along with an overview of resolved and known issues.
Getting started
This page helps the admins in setting up and configuring the Forcepoint Data Security Cloud | App Security for the first time and also explains the layout of Forcepoint Data Security Cloud | App Security.
User management
This section explains how administrators manage users, roles, and access permissions.
Home
The Home page provides a visually intuitive, data-driven dashboard that consolidates critical SaaS data discovery metrics, including Summary and Activity Log, along with quick access to key product updates.
Analyze
The Analyze section contains all of your log reports and alerts for visibility into user's activity and suspicious behavior.
Protect
The Protect section is the primary area for adding and managing your applications you wish to protect.
- Add Applications
- Configure applications
  Forcepoint Data Security Cloud | App Security supports various cloud applications so that Admins can monitor data which is in transit, in motion and at rest.
- Application Controls
- Configuring notifications
  Admins can create custom notification objects that can be applied to policies and reports. This will determine which admins or users are notified when a policy is violated and what the custom message says.
- Setup traffic steering
  Forcepoint Data Security Cloud | App Security supports SmartEdge Agent and Cloud SWG traffic steering methods. This chapter describes steps to deploy each of those so that traffic can be forwarded to Forcepoint Data Security Cloud | App Security.
- Configuring SWG policies
  You can configure SWG Connection Policy, Cloud SWG Authentication Policy and SWG Content Policy to manage traffic through Cloud SWG and SmartEdge agent.
- Configuring Advanced Threat Protection
  Forcepoint Data Security Cloud | App Security provides Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) via partnerships with an antimalware provider.
  - Setting ATP scanning policy
    You can protect your cloud application from malware by setting up ATP scanning using any of the ATP options that you have purchased. Setting up ATP scanning for your cloud application, is same as configuring any other data pattern with minor difference.
  - Understanding supported file types
    Describes the various types of file formats that are supported for scanning.
    - Viewing Forcepoint Data Security Cloud | App Security supported file MIME types
      - Viewing supported file MIME types for both inline and API scanning
        Lists supported file MIME Types for both access and API scanning.
      - Viewing additional file MIME types supported specifically for API scanning
        Lists additional file MIME Types supported specifically for API scanning.
- Integration
Settings
The Settings section contains the majority of your setting configurations to be used in policies or integrations.
Appendices

Viewing Forcepoint Data Security Cloud | App Security supported file MIME types

Forcepoint Data Security Cloud | App Security supports inline DLP scanning, and API (Cloud) scanning.

Viewing supported file MIME types for both inline and API scanning
Lists supported file MIME Types for both access and API scanning.
Viewing additional file MIME types supported specifically for API scanning
Lists additional file MIME Types supported specifically for API scanning.

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DRAFT | 2026-03-18