The Intercept email defence service is easily configured through the Control Console, a centralised email threat management policy platform that provides you with one interface for managing all corporate-wide online threats, protection and security. This easy-to-use administration and reporting tool enables organisations to:

1. Establish policies that direct how online threats are handled
   

2. Create user groups, and subscribe each user group to a particular set of filtering policies via Group Policies management. Organisations can tailor message filtering policies within each policy set to meet the specific needs of user groups, such as organisational units like accounts payable, sales or engineering, or may create and set policies for an individual user
   

3. Reduce threat management burden on your IT staff by determining whether the quarantine process for email threats will be managed by IT, your end users, or both
   

4. Automatically quarantine suspect messages by safely isolating unwanted email messages outside of your network, where they can be reviewed and deleted or released according to the policies you set
   

5. Create customised email rules lists, including "Allow" and "Deny" lists (for message senders), as well as an "Exempt Users" list (for users and recipients)
   

The Intercept Control Console also provides a wide range of real-time daily, weekly and monthly reports, which enable staff members to quickly analyse and track traffic and trends. This reporting can help you to improve overall performance and isolate issues before they can escalate. The reports include:

1. Traffic and bandwidth reports
   

2. Spam, virus, and Web threat volume reports
   

3. User activity
   

4. Event logs
   

5. Audit trails