DLP Policy for Incoming Emails

  1. Navigate to Policy.
  2. Click Add a New Policy Rule.
  3. Select the desired SaaS application under Choose SaaS drop-down.
  4. Select DLP under Choose Security drop-down and click Next.
  5. Select Prevent (Inline) mode.
  6. Select the Scope of the policy.
    1. Select email direction as Inbound.
    2. Under Senders, select the Specific Users and Groups the policy applies to.
  7. In the DLP Criteria section, do these.
    1. Select the required DLP Categories.
    2. Select the required Sensitivity Level. See DLP Policy Sensitivity Level.
    3. If you need to add a subject regular expression as the matching criteria to the DLP policy, under Advanced, enable the Enable matching based on subject regular expression checkbox and enter the regular expression. See DLP Subject Regular Expression (Regex).

  8. In the DLP Workflow section, select the required workflow. See DLP Workflows for Incoming Emails.
  9. Select the required Severity.
  10. Select the required DLP Alerts. See DLP Alerts for Incoming Emails.
  11. Click Save and Apply.
    Note:

    Applying a Prevent (Inline) rule could take up to an hour to take effect, depending on the number of protected users in the Avanan account.

For more details about configuring the DLP engine, see Data Loss Prevention (SmartDLP).