The Email Data Protection service enables you to control the flow of email content for your inbound and outbound email. The polices that you define for Email Data Protection assist in monitoring and controlling your company's acceptable use policy.
The following best practices will help you to craft policies that will enable you to take full advantage of the service.
Once you've grasped the types of emails detected, you may confidently block some and redirect others.
Common policies are provided below, but remember every organization is unique. Ensure you comprehend your business requirements before setting up any example rules. Thereafter, align your email security policy accordingly
You can use our predefined policy templates as a starting point, to address specific regulatory requirements.
Policy |
Description |
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Block emails over 25 MB |
Reduces the size of emails coming into the organization to save bandwidth. All emails over 25 MB can be blocked and deleted. You can send notifications to all parties. |
Redirect emails to/from suspicious domains |
Monitors emails coming from or going out to competitors' domains, restricting the passing on of intellectual property and poaching of employees. |
Monitor profanity outbound |
Protects the organization's brand and reputation. For example, you can prevent an employee from sending out an email containing slander to a friend. |
Redirect encrypted or password-protected mail |
Enables you to monitor and control who sends and receives encrypted or password-protected messages. |
Compress emails of between 10 MB and 25 MB |
Reduces the bandwidth that is taken up by large messages coming into the organization. |