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Intervention Option: Warn

Available for: Incoming emails; outgoing emails; Application Monitor; Data In Motion events detected by CFSA or CPSA.

Not available for: Data At Rest; events detected by the Client Network Agent (CNA).

Important! Do not choose this intervention option for triggers associated with the CNA. These agents cannot display warnings.

Choose Warn to display the Warning dialog whenever CA Data Protection detects unauthorized activity. You can specify customized warning messages for each control trigger. The warning dialog lets the user choose whether to continue or not.

Cancel

If the user clicks Cancel, this generates a heeded warning. In effect, the user accepts the warning and quits what they were trying to do, for example, printing a file, sending an email, or starting up a prohibited application.

Continue

If the user clicks Continue, this generates a disregarded warning. The user is allowed to continue (for example, they can open or send the email anyway, or copy a file to a USB device), but CA Data Protection records the fact that the user did this despite being explicitly warned against doing so.

Note: A disregarded warning does not necessarily imply any misconduct by the user. For example, a user may want to send a non-encrypted email, in breach of corporate guidelines, because it concerns a trivial matter.

In all cases, you can capture the associated event, forward emails to another address and send automatic replies to incoming emails.