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Summary

A user policy is a collection of settings, stored in a secure tamper-proof file on a CA Data Protection endpoint machine or a CA Data Protection policy engine. These settings fall into the following groups:

• Triggers: Define the ‘When’ circumstances mentioned earlier. An individual trigger defines the conditions that cause CA Data Protection to intervene. A single user policy contains hundreds of triggers. You can use as many or as few as you need.

  Crucially, each trigger is linked to a policy action. When a trigger fires, CA Data Protection applies the action.

• Actions: Define what action is taken by CA Data Protection when a trigger fires. For example, if an unauthorized attachment causes an email trigger to fire, you can configure an action to block the email or warn the user.
• System Settings: Control how CA Data Protection applies policy for a specific user or group. The most important system settings are the Document Classifications, Definitions (including User Definitions), and User Notifications. Other system settings are more technical in nature.
• Extensions: Determine how often CA Data Protection warns or notifies users that their file or print activity is being monitored.