Veritas™ Surveillance User Guide

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Product(s): Veritas Alta Surveillance (1.0)
  1. Introducing Veritas Surveillance
    1.  
      About Veritas Surveillance
    2.  
      Key features of Veritas Surveillance
    3.  
      Feature comparison: Compliance Accelerator desktop client Vs Veritas Surveillance web client
    4.  
      Sampling support for content sources
    5.  
      About Veritas Surveillance system security
    6.  
      Veritas Surveillance multi-tier architecture
    7.  
      System requirements
  2. Getting started
    1.  
      Signing in to Veritas Surveillance
    2.  
      Signing out from Veritas Surveillance
  3. Working with dashboard widgets
    1.  
      Understanding the Dashboard page
    2.  
      Viewing status summary of recently reviewed departments
    3.  
      Pinning and unpinning departments to view review status
    4.  
      Changing the order of pinned departments
    5.  
      Viewing the review status summary of escalated items
    6.  
      Viewing a summary of searches and exports
  4. Managing employees and employee groups
    1.  
      About employees and employee groups
    2.  
      Creating employee profiles
    3.  
      Editing employee profile details
    4.  
      Creating employee groups
    5.  
      Editing employee group details
  5. Managing departments
    1.  
      About departments
    2.  
      Understanding the Departments page
    3.  
      Searching departments
    4.  
      Creating departments
    5.  
      Moving existing departments under other departments
    6.  
      Adding monitored employees and employee groups to departments
    7.  
      Editing monitoring policies
    8.  
      Editing department details and monitoring policy
    9.  
      Managing exception employees
    10.  
      Designating employees as exception employee
    11.  
      Assigning further exception reviewers to an exception employee
    12.  
      Removing exception status
    13.  
      Removing exception reviewers
    14.  
      Closing or opening the departments for monitoring
    15.  
      Deleting departments
  6. Managing department users
    1.  
      Assigning users to departments
    2.  
      Removing users from departments
    3.  
      Adding new roles for users
    4.  
      Removing roles
    5. Managing role assignment for a user in departments
      1.  
        Assigning departments and exceptions to specific users
      2.  
        Removing a specific role to users in one or more departments and exceptions
  7. Managing department-level archives
    1.  
      About department-level archives
    2.  
      Including or excluding enterprise vault archives at department-level
  8. Managing department-level searches
    1.  
      About department-level searches
    2.  
      Guidelines for effective searches
    3.  
      Creating and running department-level searches
    4.  
      Pausing and resuming searches
    5.  
      Downloading search details for archives
    6.  
      Disabling scheduled searches
    7.  
      Previewing search results
    8.  
      Accepting search results
    9.  
      Rejecting a search result
    10.  
      Resubmitting a search
  9. Managing department-specific hotword sets
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Creating department-specific hotword sets
    3.  
      Editing department-specific hotwords and hotword sets
    4.  
      Deleting department-specific hotword sets
  10. Managing department-specific labels
    1.  
      Searching department-specific labels, label groups, and single choice groups
    2.  
      Managing department-specific labels
    3.  
      Managing department-specific label groups
    4.  
      Managing department-specific single choice label groups
  11. Managing department-specific review comments
    1.  
      About department-level review comments
    2.  
      Adding department-level review comments
    3.  
      Editing department-level review comments
    4.  
      Deleting department-level review comments
    5.  
      Updating order of department-level review comments
  12. Viewing employees associated with departments
    1.  
      Viewing employee association history
  13. Managing users, roles, and permissions
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Predefined user roles and permissions
    3.  
      Adding new roles for users (employees) and employee groups
    4.  
      Editing user roles and permissions
    5.  
      Deleting user roles
    6.  
      Assigning Veritas Surveillances to users (employees) and employee groups
    7.  
      Restricting users to use hotwords in searches
    8.  
      Removing a user role
  14. Managing application-level archives
    1.  
      About application-level archives
    2.  
      Including or excluding enterprise vault archives at application-level
  15. Managing application-level searches
    1.  
      About application-level searches
    2.  
      Viewing existing application-level searches
    3.  
      Creating and running application-level searches
    4.  
      Editing application-level searches
    5.  
      Excluding departments from application searches
    6.  
      Reinstating the excluded department for application searches
  16. Managing application-specific hotword sets
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Creating application-specific hotword sets
    3.  
      Editing application-specific hotwords and hotword sets
    4.  
      Deleting application-specific hotword sets
  17. Managing application-specific labels
    1.  
      Searching application-specific labels, label groups, and single choice groups
    2.  
      Managing application-specific labels
    3.  
      Managing application-specific label groups
    4.  
      Managing application-specific single choice label groups
  18. Managing application-specific review comments
    1.  
      About application-level review comments
    2.  
      Adding application-level review comments
    3.  
      Editing application-level review comments
    4.  
      Deleting application-level review comments
    5.  
      Updating order of application-level review comments
  19. Managing search schedules
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Setting up new search schedules
    3.  
      Setting up one-time search schedules
    4.  
      Example of a one-time search schedule
    5.  
      Setting up recurring search schedules
    6.  
      Example of a recurring search schedule
    7.  
      Editing search schedules
    8.  
      Deleting search schedules
  20. Managing export operations
    1.  
      About exporting items
    2.  
      Performing export runs
  21. Managing reviews
    1.  
      About reviewing with Veritas Surveillance
    2.  
      Understanding the Review page
    3.  
      Rearranging columns in the item list pane
    4.  
      Changing the Preview pane position
    5.  
      Filtering the items in the Review pane
    6.  
      Reviewing the Audio-Video Transcript type items
    7.  
      Reviewing searched items
    8.  
      Viewing Intelligent Review Details
    9.  
      Adding or removing text for machine learning
    10.  
      Assigning review status to items
    11.  
      Viewing hotwords highlighting
    12.  
      Viewing hotwords in collaboration message
    13.  
      Viewing tags highlighting
    14.  
      Viewing tags in collaboration message
    15.  
      Viewing the full content in a new window
    16.  
      Adding comments to items
    17.  
      Escalating the review items
    18.  
      Viewing history of items
    19.  
      Printing and downloading the items and attachments
  22. Working with reports
    1.  
      About Veritas Surveillance reports
    2.  
      Accessing data through the Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
    3. Enhanced reporting
      1.  
        Configuring a reporting endpoint
      2.  
        Authentication
      3. Departments API
        1.  
          Departments - List
      4. Roles API
        1.  
          Roles - List
        2.  
          Roles - List by filters
      5. Users API
        1.  
          Users - List
      6. UserRoles API
        1.  
          UserRoles - List by filters
      7. ItemMetrics API
        1.  
          ItemMetrics - List
        2.  
          ItemMetrics - List by filter
      8. ReviewerMapping API
        1.  
          ReviewerMapping - List
      9. MonitoredEmployees API
        1.  
          MonitoredEmployees - List
      10.  
        Evidence Of Review Async API
      11. Evidence of Review API
        1.  
          EvidenceOfReview - List by filter
      12.  
        Report Status API
      13.  
        Supported OData query options
      14.  
        Supported reporting endpoint API filters and their values
      15.  
        Responses
    4. Managing Power BI templates for reporting APIs
      1.  
        Configuring Microsoft Power BI Templates for Reporting APIs
      2.  
        Accessing Veritas Surveillance reports and datasets through the OData web service
      3.  
        Guidelines for using Veritas Surveillance templates with Microsoft Power BI Desktop
      4.  
        TEMPLATE - Item Metrics
      5.  
        TEMPLATE - Reviewer Mapping
      6.  
        TEMPLATE- Evidence Of Review - Submit report request
      7.  
        TEMPLATE- Evidence Of Review - View report data
      8.  
        Saving, editing, and refreshing the Power BI reports
  23. Managing Audit Settings
    1.  
      Audit Settings Overview
    2.  
      Editing the Audit Settings
  24. Working with Audit viewer
    1.  
      About Audit viewer
    2.  
      Performing a search for audit records

About reviewing with Veritas Surveillance

Veritas Surveillance simplifies the compliance assessment process for reviewers by allowing them to review the outcomes of random sampling and searches. Furthermore, the compliance review process is facilitated by the following key aspects:

  • Distinct reviewer roles: Veritas Surveillance has several predefined reviewing roles, such as Escalation reviewer, Exception reviewer, and Passive reviewer that possess the following characteristics:

    • Passive reviewers can view items and review history, but they cannot assign or change review status. However, passive reviewers can assign appraisal status to the items that other users have reviewed.

    • Exception reviewers can view the items of their assigned exception employees only.

    • Escalation reviewers can receive items that other reviewers in the department have escalated to a higher authority for further review.

    • All roles except the Passive Reviewer role permit a user to assign the pending, question, escalation, and appraisal status to the review items.

    • All the exception reviewers and escalation reviewers assigned to the departments can assess the review status and comments that reviewers have applied and add appraisal status and comments.

  • Filter pane: This pane lets you set criteria to refine the search records in the review items grid.

  • Comments: Reviewers can comment on the review items to promotes documentation and transparency, facilitates collaboration and communication, supports auditing and accountability, enables effective risk management, and contributes to continuous improvement in the compliance review process.

  • Labels, label groups, and their AI-based predictions: Reviewers can assign labels, label groups, and single choice label groups to review items. If the AI-based label predictions option is enabled for labels or single choice label groups, only 20 active labels (including single choice group labels) per department or at application level can be enabled for AI predictions. To enable AI-based label predictions, labels and single choice label groups must be marked as active and the Enable AI Predictions option must be selected.

    Deactivated labels and label groups are not considered for analysis and AI-based label predictions.

    The Predicted labels column is displayed in the items grid on the Review page as shown in the sample image below. If multiple labels are predicted, they are separated by semicolon.

  • Tags and hotwords statistics: Reviewers can quickly view the tags and hotwords-specific statistics per item and can navigate to individual matches in the Preview pane.

  • Review items grid customization: Veritas Surveillance lets you set the Preview pane position to the bottom or the right side of the review items grid for better readability. It also allows you to rearrange columns of the grid according to your specific requirements. You can sort the resulted reviewing items by increasing or decreasing relevance score, tags, and so on. You can collapse and expand the panes for better readability.

  • Relevance Score: This score is an integer value ranging from 0 to 100, assigned to all review items. It indicates the degree of relevance for review. A lower relevance score suggests that the item is more irrelevant, while a higher score indicates that the item is more relevant and requires closer attention during the review process. This functionality enables reviewers to promptly prioritize items for review, focusing on the most relevant ones first.

    The Relevance Score column is displayed in the list pane by default. The score is calculated and displayed only if the Intelligent Review service is enabled for the selected departments. For the departments that are not enabled for the intelligent review service, the application displays the column, but the values remain blank.

  • Sentiment score: In Enterprise Vault, when Veritas Classification is enabled as part of the retention plan, the sentiments expressed in the textual content are analyzed and the sentiment score is generated at the item level, which measures attitudes, opinions, and emotions. The sentiment score value ranges from 0 to 100, where a 0-39 score represents negative sentiment, a 40-59 score represents neutral sentiment, and a 60-100 score represents positive sentiment.

    The sentiment score column is by default displayed in the items grid on the Review page. A smile-emoji is used as a column heading. You can change the column position in the grid if required. You can click the column heading to sort the items based on the ascending or descending sentiment score as shown in the sample image below.

    Note:

    If Enterprise Vault does not provide a sentiment score for any item, Veritas Surveillance displays a blank value in the column for that specific item.