Rule Config: Time-of-Click Protection

  1. Specify the action to be performed for hyperlinks of the risk levels High, Medium, Low and Unverified. The available Actions are:
    • Block URL: Access to any URL marked with corresponding risk level will be blocked.
    • Allow URL: Access to any URL marked with corresponding risk level will be allowed.
    • Warn and Allow URL: A warning page will be displayed to the user with a link to access the URL.
    Note By default, the actions are set to:

    High Risk: Block URL

    Medium Risk: Warn and Allow URL

    Low Risk: Warn and Allow URL

    Unverified: Allow URL

  2. Select any of the following options, if required.
    • Do not rewrite Whitelisted URLs Appliance will not rewrite or encode Whitelisted URLs present in a message. You can whitelist URLs from Configuration > Policy > Allow/Block Lists.
    • Rewrite non-hyperlinked URLs Appliance will rewrite or encode even the URLs mentioned as plain text, and not hyperlinked.
    • Rewrite URLs mentioned in message Subject Appliance will rewrite or encode even those URLs that are present in the subject of a message.
    • Quarantine messages with long URL Appliance will quarantine messages that contain a long URL (a rewritten or an encoded URL whose length is bigger than 990 characters). Whether this option is selected or not, an appliance will never rewrite or encode a long URL.