Introduction

Delegated administration is a powerful tool for distributing configuration, policy management, and reporting responsibilities across an organization.

Global Security Administrators can define administrator accounts for all Forcepoint Security Manager modules (Web, Data, and Email).

In the Web module, Super Administrators can then grant policy management privileges, reporting rights, or both to delegated administrators, who can manage or report on Internet usage for specific clients (users, groups, computers, or networks).

Super Administrators can also:

• Create a set of master restrictions that limit the access delegated administrators can grant to their clients via policies.
• Send copies of their policies and filters to delegated administrators, who can use them as templates for creating policies and filters to apply to their clients.

All of this is accomplished through the use of roles, which group related clients with the administrators responsible for managing their policies, reporting on their Internet usage, or both. For example, a school district might create Staff, Teachers, and Elementary Students roles, and then assign one or more administrators to each.

This Quick Start guide provides the basic information needed to get started with delegated administration. Complete and comprehensive instructions are available from the Administrator Help, available from the Help menu in the Security Manager, or from the Technical Library.