Valimail Defend User Guide

Example: Policy Assignment

Jane Doe is a Vice President of Sales at a XYZ company. Her email address is . She belongs to two groups:

  • Executives

  • Sales

When the Defend administrator creates her Defend account for the first time, the Defend default account policy is automatically assigned to her mailbox, which is Monitor. In this example, the Defend administrator wants to modify the policies for Jane Doe's mailbox to protect her mailbox from phishing.

The Defend administrator needs to perform the following steps to :

  1. Change the Default account policy to Quarantine. The mailbox inherits the policy Quarantine.

  2. Prioritize the group Executives over the group Sales.

  3. Set the policy for the group Executives to Reject. The mailbox inherits the policy Reject from the group.

  4. Set the policy for group Sales to Ignore. The mailbox continues to keep the policy Reject inherited from the group Executives, because the group Executives has been assigned a higher priority than the group Sales.

  5. Set the priority for the group Sales higher than for the group Executives. This results in the policy for the mailbox being updated to Ignore.

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