This article applies to:

• Trustwave SEG Cloud
  • This functionality is currently optional. Mandatory use for new customers is anticipated before the end of 2020.
• User Address Registration

Question:

• What is SEG Cloud Address Registration?

Information:

As part of the SEG Cloud service, Trustwave provides User Registration based filtering for incoming email.

Concepts

User Registration filters out unwanted email before it is processed by the majority of content rules. You can also set User Registration filtering to reject unwanted email when an external service connects, before final receipt by SEG Cloud.

User Registration allows SEG Cloud to deliver significantly enhanced throughput and anti-spam performance, while also saving resource on your systems that would be wasted by messages addressed to invalid users.

Registration or requiring a list of valid internal users is industry standard practice for managed email services.

Setup and Management

User Registration checking is implemented by the SEG Cloud Policy Group "Invalid Recipient Handling". Messages to invalid recipients are quarantined by default.

As part of the provisioning process, Trustwave creates a User Group (email address list) called Licensed Users. Addresses in this group are recognized as valid end user email addresses for the customer. 

This group is used in a default rule: Block emails to invalid recipients, except where addressed to Licensed Users.

Trustwave adds the initial customer administrator address to this group (if it is in one of the customer's managed domains).

You can maintain the list of Licensed Users manually or automatically. 

More details about the options are provided in the SEG Cloud Customer Guide and Help.

Manual editing

1. Log in to the SEG Cloud Console, and navigate to Policy Elements > Groups > Licensed Users. 
2. Add email addresses to the Licensed Users group.
   • You can import lists of addresses from a text file.
   • You can manage lists with additional groups and include the groups in Licensed Users
3. Changes normally take effect within about five minutes.
4. Customers must add or remove members from the groups as required by changes in their list of email end users.

Automatic group synchronization using the Connector Agent (recommended)

1. Log in to the SEG Cloud Console, and download the Connector Agent.
2. Install and configure the Connector Agent on any workstation that has access to the SEG Cloud Console and your directory service.
3. Configure the connection to the Console.
4. Select the groups that contain valid users.
5. Enable synchronization. Synchronization normally runs every four hours.
6. In the SEG Cloud Console, navigate to Policy Elements > Groups to verify that the synchronized groups are available.
7. Navigate to Policy Elements > Groups > Licensed Users, and add the synchronized groups to Licensed Users.
8. You should ensure that the groups chosen to be synchronized contain all your valid email end users. SEG Cloud will then automatically receive any changes in the list of email end users.

Filtering at connection time

Trustwave MailMarshal Cloud KB article Q21152

Last Modified: September 22, 2020