ePrism User Guide - EdgeWave

Policy Management
Policy Overview
ePrism’s Policy controls allow settings for annotations, anti-spam, anti-virus, and attachment
control to be customized and applied to different groups or domains of users. Domains can be
added manually, while user groups and users can be imported from LDAP-compatible directories.
Policies can then be applied to apply customized settings to these groups and domains.
Policies can be configured for the following items:
• Annotations
• Anti-Virus
• Inbound and Outbound Attachment Control
• DCC
• STA
Note: Anti-Virus scanning must be licensed to be able to use them with policy controls.
Policy Scenarios
The following describes some examples of how you can use policies to provide customized settings
to different groups or domains of users in your organization.
• Annotations — You may want your Technical Support and Marketing departments to have
different annotations appended to their outgoing messages. You can set up your group policy to
provide an annotation emphasizing technical services for the Technical Support department,
and a sales and promotional annotation for the Marketing department. Other users may only
require a company-wide disclaimer to be appended to their emails.
• Attachment Control — You can set up group policies to allow your Development group to
accept and send executable files (.exe) to each other, while configuring your attachment control
settings for all your other departments to block this file type to prevent the spread of viruses
among the general users. The Development group will be allowed to use these files because they
may need to send compiled code to each other.
• Anti-Spam — When using the STA (Statistical Token Analysis) anti-spam tool, you may want to
use or evaluate it with only one particular domain. Domain policies allow you to enable and
configure STA for only certain domains, while disabling it for all other domains.
Global and Default Policies
You do not have to create separate policies for each and every user group or domain. Global and
Default templates can be used to easily apply the same policy to several groups or domains.
The Global Policy is the master policy that can be inherited by the Default or individual group or
domain policies. You can enable or disable each feature globally, and then select the feature to
configure it. For the Default Policy, you can choose to use the Global Policy value, or enable and
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