Email Security

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E-mail Security

Cloud USS E-mail Security provides comprehensive real-time email threat protection, through a simple redirection of MX records and outbound "Smart Host" configuration. Through multi-layered protectio…

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Custom rule Data

Email Security uses Custom Rule Data to enhance the data in Message Rules and Connection Rules, and to provide specific customised data against which to measure emails. Custom Rule Data comes in two…

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Configure Office 365 for EMS

To successfully add Office 365 customers, you will need to perform three steps: Configure Cloud USS for the Office 365 accounts. Configure Inbound mail on Office 365 to reject non-EMS emails. Configu…

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Global Safe List

Email addresses or domains that are added to your Global Safe List will be treated as safe for all Email Security users. The exact behaviour of the Safe List will depend on your Message Rules and Con…

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MX records and IP addresses for EU customers

This article lists the MX records and IP addresses used by the Cloud USS E-mail Security service. These records are for customers in the EU. Before implementing these records on your own system, plea…

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Reporting spam or false positives

If you believe Email Security has generated a false positive report for an email message, or if you have received a spam message, you can report the email to Censornet Support. To generate a report,…

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Configuring TLS encryption

You can use TLS to encrypt the tunnel between sending and receiving SMTP servers. This increases the security of your emails, and makes interception less likely. Email Security provides two options f…

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MX records and IP addresses for non-EU customers

This article lists the MX records and IP addresses used by the Cloud USS E-mail Security service. These records are for customers outside the EU. Before implementing these records on your own system,…

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Connection Rules

Unlike Message Rules (which are executed against individual emails), Connection Rules are applied to every attempt to connect to or from your mailboxes. You can use Connection Rules to preemptively r…

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Message Rules

The Email Security Message Rules engine lies at the heart of your email security process. The powerful rule builder gives you precise control of the email traffic going to and from your domain. To ta…

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LinkScan: on-demand URL protection

The reputation of URLs contained in an email is checked at the time of processing using the URL Scanner Rule condition. With LinkScan , further checks are conducted the moment the end-user clicks the…

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Personal Quarantine

As well as the Global Quarantine , Each Email Security user has access to their own Personal Quarantine as well. This functionality can currently only be accessed through the legacy portal at https:/…

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Bulk email terms and conditions

Clients that make use of E-mail Security for sending outbound email must respect the terms and conditions below, pertaining to bulk email. If you wish to send bulk email, customers and end-users crea…

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Queue retention and retry times

Email Security has a set of standard retry and retention times, which dictate how long an undelivered email will remain in the email queue. If a connection results an error message in the 5xx range,…

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Global Quarantine

Emails that trigger a Message Rule with a Final Action of Quarantine - Company will be placed in the Global Quarantine. Email Security users also have access to a Personal Quarantine. Reviewing quara…

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Group Management

You can use the Group Management screen to see all the user groups supported on your system. Message Rules can take advantage of groups to perform specific actions for users in particular groups. To…

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EMS: Product Configuration

To configure your Email Security installation, visit your USS Dashboard and click Products ⟶ E-mail Security ⟶ Product Configuration Domains. To add or remove domains from Email Security tracking, us…

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Global Deny List

Email addresses or domains that are added to your Global Deny List will be automatically rejected for all Email Security users. The exact behaviour of the Deny List will depend on your Message Rules…

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Personal Safe Lists and Personal Deny Lists

As well as the Global Safe Lists and Global Deny Lists , Each Email Security user has access to their own Personal Safe List and Personal Deny List as well. This functionality can currently only be a…

Updated 3 weeks ago by admin

Configure outbound DMARC

Email Security provides the ability to participate in DMARC (Domain Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance) for email authentication. Below configuring any DMARC DNS entry, you must ensure…

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Configure outbound DKIM

Domain Key Identified Mail or DKIM verifies that email is from the domain-configured source and has not been changed in transmit. By configuring DKIM outbound it will increase your domain reputation…

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Mailboxes

Your Email Security account can cover many different email mailboxes, at multiple domains. To see the mailboxes currently being managed by Email Security , visit your USS Dashboard and click Products…

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