Configuring Policies

Configuring policies allow you to select communication messages based on specified criteria and filters.

Note

To create or add a policy you must have the Access Policies and Create and edit my Policies permissions enabled for your role.

The following topics detail how to configure Policies:

Configuring Policies Workspace

The configuring policies workspace is shown in the following figure:

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The user can choose from the following options available in the Configuring Policies workspace:

  • Add Policy - Select this option to add or create a policy.

Clicking the elipsis against each policy lists the following options:

  • Edit - Select this option to Edit the policy.

  • Add Policy To Queues - Select this option to add a policy to multiple queues. The user can select from a list of queues that are available and the policy is not part of. By default, the Select Queues window displays 100 queues. Use the pagination button to add queues from other pages and click Add. A Selected Queues updated snackbar appears confirming that the policy is added to the selected queues.

  • Enable Policy in Queues - Select this option to enable a policy in multiple queues. The user can select from a list of queues that the policy has been added to, however has not been enabled.

  • Disable Policy in Queues - Select this option to disable a policy in multiple queues. The user can select from the list of queues that the policy has been added to and is enabled.

Note

The Add Policy to Queues, Enable Policy in Queues, and Disable Policy in Queues options can only be applied to a single policy at a time.

Adding a Policy

To add a policy:

Note

The Policy Name, Policy Category, and Policy Type are mandatory fields.

  1. Click the Conduct tab in the Enterprise Archive UI.

  2. Click Policies under Configure from the Conduct workspace.

  3. Click Add Policy next to Policies.

  4. Type a unique name for the policy in the Name box.

    Note

    An existing Policy name is not allowed, an error will be displayed while saving the Policy, if an existing policy name is used.

  5. Select from the following options:

    1. Upload Policy - Selecting this option will allow you to upload a JSON policy file to be used. The Policy workspace will be greyed out on selecting this option.

      • Conduct customers who have Cognition enabled, will be able to access out-of-the-box Cognition scenarios during the Upload Policy step.

      • Cognition scenarios will only be available when the Policy Type option is selected as Flag.

    2. Create Policy - Selecting this option will allow you to create a custom policy based on the available filters.

  6. Type a new policy category or select an existing policy category from the Policy Category: select or enter a policy category drop-down.

  7. Policy Category helps in categorizing of policies in a logical manner to identify the nature of conversations. For example: "Insider Trading" or "Racial Discrimination".

  8. Select a Policy Type from the drop-down. The available options are:

    1. Flag - Selecting this option will fetch communications that match the set parameters for this policy.

    2. Ignore - Selecting this option will ignore communications that match the set parameters for this policy.

  9. Subject to Cognition availability in a customer's environment, users can also select from a list of Cognition scenarios. Subsequently users can select the desired scenario version, while the path location will also be displayed as shown in the image below:

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    For more information on Cognition scenarios, refer the Cognition topic.

  10. To enable Echo Cancellation feature for a policy, select the check-box labelled Enable Echo cancellation for this policy. For more information on this feature, refer the Echo-Cancellation for Conduct section.

  11. Configure the required policy parameters. The following table describes the parameters.
    Table 4: Policy Configurations

    Options

    Description

    Words/Phrases

    List of Terms

    List of Terms allows you to search for words that match any or all of the following combinations:

    • Must have all of these keywords

    • Must have at least one of these keywords

    • Must not have any of these keywords

    Advanced Query

    Advanced Query allows you to configure a search query that can contain phrases, boolean, and proximity operators.

    Where to Search

    Allows you to search all or any of the following parts of a message. Select the check box against any or all of the following parts to apply them to the search criteria:

    • Subject

    • Body

    • Attachment

    • Attributes

    • Email Header

    Note

    The Where to Search option functions only when you select any of the search options.

    Direction of Communication

    Select any or all of the following direction of communications:

    • Internal Only—fetches communications within the organization.

    • External Only—fetches communications in which all participants are external.

    • External Inbound—fetches communications in which external participants are sending a message to one or more internal participants.

    • External Outbound—fetches communications in which internal participants send messages to one or more external participants.

    • External Bidirectional—fetches communications having internal and external participants with no specific direction of communication, for example, chat rooms.

    Action Events

    Select the action events you wish to apply to the query, such as Add Disclaimer, Block, Copy Message, Modify Subject, and so on.

    Policy Events

    Select the policy events to apply to the query, such as Infected Content, Moderated Content, Size Limit Exceeded, Blocked Content, and so on.

    Network

    Select the network for communication, such as Facebook, Yahoo, and so on, from the Network group box.

    Communication Channel

    Select the mode of communication, such as Email, IM, Chat, Blog, and so on, from the Communication Channels group box.

  12. Click Save. Your new policy is saved and is also listed in the Policies page.

Note

To add more policies, follow the steps listed under the procedure Adding a Policy. If you have completed adding all your policies you can start Creating Queues.

Editing a Policy

You can edit an existing policy in Conduct.

  • To edit a policy created by you, you must have the Create and edit my Policies permission enabled for your role.

  • To edit a policy created by another reviewer, you must have the Edit any Policy permission enabled for your role.

To edit an existing policy:

  1. Click the Conduct tab in the Enterprise Archive UI.

  2. Click Policies under Configure from the Conduct workspace. The Policies page appears, and the existing policies are listed in this page.

  3. Select the Edit option by clicking the elipsis against the policy to be edited.

  4. Edit the fields you want to modify.

  5. Click Save. The "Policy updated Successfully." message appears.

    Note

    • Enterprise Archive also allows you to save an edited policy under a different name by clicking the Save As button.

    • While editing a policy, ensure that none of the Queue using that policy is run. This avoids failures while running the Queue.

    After configuring policies, the next step in Conduct is Creating Queues.

MUSTX Policy Rules

While creating a policy, follow the rules listed below to ensure the desired search results are returned.

  • A maximum of 50 keywords should be present in the MUSTALL criteria.

  • A maximum of 50 keywords should be present in the MUSTNOT criteria.

  • The MUSTANY criteria can contain any number of keywords.

  • An error message will be displayed in Enterprise Archive if the list of terms exceeds 50 for the MUSTALL and MUSTNOT criteria.

Use Cases for Query Search Criteria

Refer to the following use case scenarios to know more on how to specify effective search policies.

Table 3: User Cases for Query Search Criteria

Use Case

Scenario

Search Lexicons

Additional Search Criteria

Gift and Entertainment Policy Violation

To supervise all email communications that were sent or received by participants from the procurement department of your company for any possible gift and entertainment policy violation, using the lexicons mentioned in the Search Lexicons column.

Method: Using term based search (List of Terms option).

Gifts & Entertainment:

  • You Covered

  • Tickets You

  • Earn Business

Confidential Documents:

  • Internal Only

  • Not Distribute

  • Draft Purposes

Insider Trading:

  • Hot Tip

  • Information Valuable

  • Source Says

  • Select participants while defining the Queue, using Add Supervised Participants/Groups option.

  • To search for emails that were received by these employees from external participants (outside of your company), select the External Inbound check box under Direction of Communication.

  • To search for lexicons mentioned under the Search Lexicons column in the subject of an email, select the Subject check box under Where to Search.

Rogue Trading and Fraud Policy Violation

To Supervise all forms of communications for selected participants in your company for any fraudulent trading activity (Insider Trading), using the lexicons mentioned in the Search Lexicons column.

Method: Using Advanced Query with proximity search.

Rate Setting:

  • Push Benchmark~3

  • Fix Index~3

  • Inflate Level~3

Collusion:

  • Avoid Detection~3

  • Keep Confidential~3

  • Talk Offline~2

  • Select participants while defining the Queue, using Supervised ParticipantsAdd option.

  • To search for communications in which internal participants send messages to one or more external participants (outside of your company), select the External Outbound check box under Direction of Communication.

  • To search for lexicons mentioned under the Lexicons column in the body of an email, select the Body check box under Where to Search.