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Introduction

CA DLP needs to associate captured events with participants in order to allow reviewers to search for events by user. CA DLP also requires a mechanism to determine which user policy to apply to these events.

For emails and IM conversations, this mapping is typically based on email addresses. This guide therefore also describes how CA DLP maps email addresses onto user accounts, and lists which CA DLP features use address mapping. Finally, it includes some FAQs about address handling in CA DLP.

When mapping email addresses to user names, CA DLP intercepts or imports an email and extracts the addresses of the sender and recipients (1). Linked tables in the CMS database (2) enable CA DLP to map the email address of each participant to an existing CA DLP user (3).