Policy Guide › Intervention Setting › Intervention Setting: Block with Notification

Intervention Setting: Block with Notification

Available for: Incoming emails, outgoing emails, Web pages, Application Monitor

Not available for: Data At Rest, Data In Motion. But note that a separate Block intervention option is available for files detected by Data In Motion triggers.

Choose Block with Notification to display the Blocking dialog whenever an email, Web page, or data submission to a Web site is blocked. You can specify customized notification messages for each control trigger.

Emails

For intended recipients, you could combine this option with a Forward Incoming Email setting to effectively redirect the email. You can use the notification message in the blocking dialog to explain what action has been taken.

For incoming emails, you can send an automatic reply to the sender and delete the email from the user’s Inbox or leave it in the Inbox but with its body text replaced by a standard notification message.

Web pages

The Block with Notification option is tied to the Redirect setting. This means that users trying to browse an unauthorized Web site are automatically sent to an alternative URL such as a page on your intranet when they click Go in their browser.

Note: Redirection only occurs when a Web page is blocked. You cannot redirect users if the control action was triggered by an unauthorized data submission or file upload.

Applications

For blocked applications, the application fails to start up. The mouse pointer temporarily changes to 'busy' then reverts to 'normal'.