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Intervention Setting: Advise Encryption

Available for: Outgoing Emails; Data In Motion events detected by CFSA.

Not available for: Incoming Emails; Data At Rest events; events detected by the NBA; events detected by the Client Network Agent (CNA). See the warning below.

Choose Advise Encryption to warn users whenever CA DataMinder detects an attempt to send an unencrypted email or copy an unencrypted file to a removable device such as a USB drive. You can specify a customized notification message for each control trigger.

Important! Do not choose this intervention option for triggers associated with the NBA or CNA.

• The NBA cannot send encryption warnings when it detects unencrypted files, webmails and SMTP emails. Consequently, such items are sent or copied without encryption.
• The CNA cannot send encryption warnings when it detects unencrypted data submissions to web sites. Consequently, items such as file uploads are submitted without encryption.

Emails

For emails detected by a CA DataMinder endpoint agent, CA DataMinder displays a warning dialog to the email sender. The sender can choose one of the following:

Encrypt

CA DataMinder inserts an 'encryption request' x-header into the email. This x-header is subsequently detected by a third-party encryption provider, which in turn encrypts the email before it leaves your network.

Don't Encrypt

The email is sent unencrypted.

Cancel

The email is not sent.For emails detected by a CA DataMinder email server agent:

• If server-side interactive warnings are not enabled, CA DataMinder does not intervene and the email is sent unencrypted.
• If server-side interactive warnings are enabled, CA DataMinder sends a warning email to the sender. If the sender replies to the warning promptly, their original email is released and sent unencrypted to its intended recipients. If they do not reply (or reply too late), their original email is disposed of without being sent.

Important! If server-side interactive warnings are enabled, make sure that the message to users in the warning email clearly explains the consequences of replying and not replying! In particular, note the different reply handling for the Advise Encryption and Enforce Encryption options.

Data In Motion

When the warning displays, the user copying the file can choose one of the following:

Encrypt

CA DataMinder prompts the user for a password, and uses this password to encrypt the file on the removable device.

Don't Encrypt

The file is copied onto the removable device unencrypted.

Cancel

The file is not copied.

Note: CA DataMinder cannot encrypt files being copied to network locations. Do not use Advise Encryption or Enforce Encryption control actions to prevent unencrypted files being copied to shared locations on your network.