Creating Custom Content Filtering Policy in Symantec Messaging Gateway

In this article, a brief description is given about how to create a custom content filtering policy in Symantec Messaging Gateway.

The steps are as below:

1. Log in the Symantec Messaging Gateway GUI Console

                        Open a Browser> Type https://FQDN(for eg: https://172.31.1.204)

1. Go to Content> Policies> Email. Click on Add.

1. Select Blank Policy and Click Select.

1. Configuring a Content Filtering Policy:

a) Policy name and Settings:

            Add the Policy name and Check the Track violations of this policy in the dashboard and reports. This makes the custom policy get included in the reports and the Dashboard Entries.

b)  Subsequent Content Filter Handling:

Symantec Messaging Gateway evaluates policies One-By-One on the basis of their Order in the Policy List.

You can also specify how do you want Symantec Messaging Gateway to treat subsequent content filtering policies as follows:

Symantec Messaging Gateway evaluates policies One-By-One on the basis of their Order in the Policy List.

i) Continue with Evaluation & Actions:

When this option is triggered, all actions for the next policy that is triggered are added to the "ACTION-LIST."

ii) Provide Incidents & Notifications Actions Only:

 When this option is triggered, only the 'create incident' and 'send notification' actions of the next policy that is triggered are added to the "ACTION-LIST."

iii) Halt Evaluation & Actions:

When this option is triggered, Symantec Messaging Gateway takes the action on that policy but does not evaluate any further policies.

c) Conditions:

            Select whether the conditions you apply should effect both Outbound and Inbound messages or either of them. And also select whether all the conditions should be met or any one of them.

To add a condition, Click Add.

Add the content filtering conditions according to the requirement and Click Add Condition

d) Actions:

            The Actions should be specified for the conditions applied on the mails in the Content Filtering Policy. In the Actions Section Click on Add.
 

Select an Appropriate Action from the Action List.

e) Apply to the following Policy Groups:

            Specifies the group on which the content filtering policy should apply on. Multiple Groups can be selected on which the content filtering policy will imply.

You may then see the custom policy that you configured in the Content Filtering policy list.