DLP Policy for Outgoing Emails

To configure DLP policy for outgoing 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) or Monitor only protection mode.

6. Select the Scope of the policy:

   1. Select email direction as Outbound .

   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 Outgoing Emails.

   Note - This option is available only in Prevent (Inline) mode.

9. Select the required Severity.

10. Select the required DLP Alerts. See DLP Alerts for Outgoing Emails.

11. Click Save and Apply.

    Notes: Applying a Prevent (Inline) rule could take up to an hour to take effect, depending on the number of protected users in the Email Security account. If you get Manual Changes Required message while creating a Prevent (Inline) DLP policy for Gmail, you must make changes in the Google Admin Console. For more information, see Appendix C: Manual Steps for Enabling Gmail Prevent (Inline) DLP Policy.

For more details about the DLP security engine, see Data Loss Prevention .