Group and user synchronization overview

In the Forcepoint cloud service, your directory information is used in applying web and email security policy rules to users and groups.

If you are synchronizing groups, you must also synchronize users.

• When you synchronize a group, only information about the group itself (such as the group name and any parent group) is transfered—not the contents of the group.
• User synchronization includes details of each group that users belong to.

When you apply a web policy or an email policy to a synchronized group, that policy is applied to all synchronized users who are members of that group.