Overview
You have completed the New Admin Quick Start tutorial. You have the basic tools you need to start working with your web protection software.
There are a number of additional features that you can use to add even more precision and flexibility to your deployment. These features are described in detail in the Administrator Help (accessible via the Help button in the Forcepoint Security Manager toolbar).
For Super Administrators:
- Configure Content Gateway analysis to provide security analysis for files and inbound and outbound content, as well as tunneled protocol detection, real-time content categorization for dynamic
content, and SSL decryption.
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- Configure a variety of policy enforcement settings, including which policy to use when multiple group policies could apply, default quota time allotments and quota session length, bandwidth
enforcement thresholds, and more.
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- Enable alerting to ensure that administrators receive notification about potential problems with your deployment, or with users’ Internet activity.
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- Configure transparent identification agents and specify how users are identified for policy enforcement.
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- Configure how much user-identifying information appears in reporting log records, and which categories are logged.
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For administrators with policy management permissions:
- Create custom categories or recategorize individual sites (recategorized URLs).
Go to and click Edit Categories.
- Configure protocol filters for increased control over Internet protocols, like those used for instant messaging and peer-to-peer file sharing.
Go to and click a filter name, or click Add.
- Configure cloud app filters to control the cloud applications that can be used by your clients.
Go to and click Add in the Cloud App Filters section.
- Define keywords to gain a higher level of control over which sites clients can access.
Go to and click Edit Categories, then select a category.
For reporting administrators:
- The Investigative Reporting Quick Start provides a step-by-step guide to uncovering the information most useful to your organization.
- The Presentation Reporting Quick Start gives comprehensive instructions for creating graphical or tabular reports for sharing.
As you explore the Forcepoint Security Manager, if you have questions about what a feature does or how to use a function, go to .
In addition, visit the Support Portal any time to find tips, video tutorials, an extensive Knowledge Base, and product documentation.