Email Security

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Overview

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…

Updated 2 years ago by admin

Email Security: Quick Start

Follow this quick start guide to quickly get up and running with Email Security. Download the digital PDF edition of the quick start guide. Whilst this guide is intended to help you implement the Ema…

Updated 1 year ago by admin

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…

Updated 3 months ago by admin

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…

Updated 2 years ago by admin

Default Rules

Email Security comes with a set of sensible default Rules. These defaults may be sufficient for your organisation, but we still recommend you familiarise yourself with them, in order to fully underst…

Updated 3 months ago by admin

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…

Updated 1 year ago by admin

Global Quarantine

Emails that trigger a Message Rule with a Final Action of Quarantine - Company will be placed in the Global Quarantine. Quarantined emails are available for 30 days. Email Security users also have ac…

Updated 7 months ago by admin

Personal Quarantine

As well as the Global Quarantine , Each Email Security user has access to their own Personal Quarantine as well. Quarantined emails are available for 30 days. You can grant users the ability to view…

Updated 7 months ago by admin

Spam Deny List

By default, email addresses or domains that are added to your Spam Deny List will be automatically rejected for all Email Security users. The exact behaviour of the Deny List will depend on your Mess…

Updated 1 month ago by admin

Spam Safe List

By default, email addresses or domains that are added to your Spam Safe List will be treated as safe for all Email Security users. The exact behaviour of the Safe List will depend on your Message Rul…

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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…

Updated 3 months ago by admin

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…

Updated 5 months ago by admin

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…

Updated 2 years ago by admin

Placeholders for inserting message data into actions

The following placeholders are supported in Email Security Message Rule actions, such as Prefix to Subject or Notify Recipient (Subject or Message). The placeholder will be replaced with the actual d…

Updated 2 years ago by admin

Redirect emails to a different address

Email destined for specific recipients can be re-routed (redirected) to an alternative address, using the Re-Route To rule action within Message Rules. Example 1 - simple re-route. The following exam…

Updated 2 years ago by admin

Configure Inbound mail on Office 365 to reject non-EMS emails

You should configure Office 365 to block any inbound email that does not originate from Email Security product. The recommended approach to this is described below. Log in to the Office 365 Admin Cen…

Updated 6 months ago by admin