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

Filtering the items in the Review pane

The search and filter options available in the Review pane provide several parameters to filter items for review.

To filter the items in the review pane

  1. In the left navigation pane, click Review.
  2. In the Department drop-down list, do the following steps:

    Note:

    The selections are persisted across all login sessions for the logged-in user.

    • In the Mode drop-down list, choose whether to perform a standard review of the items in the review set or an escalation review.

      Note:

      Escalation Review mode is available to escalation reviewers only. It lets these reviewers view and change review status of the items that other reviewers have escalated to them for further attention.

    • In the Dept drop-down list, select the department, a nested department, or folder for which you want to display the items in the review set.

    • In the Items drop-down list, select a group of items you want to review.

      The following options are available:

      • Temporary Assignment: This option lets you reserve the specified number of items in the review set. Other reviewers cannot see these items until you have finished work on them.

      • All Items: This option lets you view all the items in the review set, even if they have been assigned to other reviewers. You may duplicate the work of other reviewers if you use this option. Therefore, we recommend that you select this option only if there are no other reviewers working alongside you, or you want to browse the items without marking them.

  3. In the Advanced Filter drop-down list, specify the following if needed to filter review items.
    • Filter on Subject - This field is applicable for searching emails and collaboration messages. Enter a word or phrase that you want to search. The application filters the review items in which the subject field contains the specified words.

    • Filter on Item ID - This field is applicable for searching items based on their Item ID. Expand the Advanced Filter panel to view this field. Enter the Item ID of the item that you wish to view and then click Apply or press Enter. The review item with the matching Item ID is displayed and the previous filter selection criteria gets cleared. The Item ID is displayed in the Preview, the comments, and in the history tab.

  4. In the Filter drop-down, do any of the following as required:
    • Choose the filter criteria from the default Preset options. By default, the following preset options are available:

      • All Unreviewed

      • Today's Unreviewed

      • All Unreviewed Exchange

      • All Unreviewed Instant Messaging

      • All Unreviewed Bloomberg

      • All Unreviewed Domino

      • All Messages

    • Expand the necessary facets and select the item classification options you want to apply.

      If you want to use the same facet settings frequently, you can save this setting as a filter preset option. In the Preset drop-down, select Custom, then click the + icon next to the drop-down arrow. In the Save preset as field, enter a unique name of the filter preset, and click OK.

      Upon successful addition, the newly saved filter preset appears in the Preset drop-down.

    ??? lists the available filter facets.

    Facets

    Description

    Status

    Select items by their status, like pending, reviewed, questioned, and so on.

    Capture date

    Selects items that Veritas Surveillance has captured over the specified period. The default options are - Today, Yesterday, Last 7 days, Last 14 days, and Last 28 days.

    Click Set date range to filter the items based on the date range specified.

    Clicking the calendar icon displays the review item count beneath the date, month, and year wise view. When selected, the application also displays day-wise, month-wise, and year-wise item counts beneath the respective dates, months, and years. If there is no items count, a hyphen (-) is displayed. For more details,

    Date

    Select items by the date on which they were created. The default options are - Today, Yesterday, and Last week.

    The last week defines Monday to Sunday range of the last week. You can use this option to review weekly items. When you hover over the Last week option, you can view the last week Monday to Sunday date range. For example, if you are working on 18th Nov 2021, the last week dates are displayed as 8th Nov 2021 to 14th Nov 2021.

    Click Set date range to filter the items based on the date range specified.

    Clicking the calendar icon displays the review item count beneath the date, month, and year wise view. When selected, the application also displays day-wise, month-wise, and year-wise item counts beneath the respective dates, months, and years. If there is no items count, a hyphen (-) is displayed. For more details,

    Search

    Select items that one or more searches have captured.

    If there are more than 20 items, the application displays the Show all option. To view all the items, click Show all and select maximum 20 items.

    To select multiple items, select the corresponding check boxes. You can select items from multiple pages. You can use the Go to page field to select the available page number you want to view. Else, the application displays the message as Invalid page.

    The total of selected items is displayed in the bottom. To remove entire selection, click the Clear icon. To remove any of the selected items, click on the link (which is adjacent to the Clear icon), search for the employee record, and click the Remove icon.

    Scheduled search

    Select items that one or more searches have captured according to their search schedules.

    Hotword

    Select items by the name of the hotword.

    Hotword Set

    Select items by the name of the hotword set.

    Author

    Select items by the name of the person who sent them.

    Escalation status

    Select items by whether they have been escalated to an escalation reviewer or subsequently closed by that reviewer.

    Appraisal status

    Select items by their appraisal status.

    Type

    Select one or more supported message types.

    • Exchange

    • Teams Channel

    • Teams Chat

    • EML

    • Yammar

    • Viva Engage

    • WhatsApp

    • Video Files

    • Audio Files

    • Symphony

    • Blackberry

    • Domino

    • Salesforce Chatter

    • WeChat

    • LinkedIn Audit

    • Signal

    • FXConnect

    • EWS

    • UBS

    • Pivot

    • SMS Collaboration

    • Crowd Compass

    • CellTrust

    • XIP

    • Webpage Capture

    • Workplace from Facebook

    • XSLT/XML

    • Text-Delimited

    • Refinitiv

    • Redtail Speak

    • ServiceNow

    • ServiceNow

    • Avaya

    • Yieldbroker

    • Mobile Phone

    • Zoom

    • IPC

    The available options are displayed based on the services subscribed and enabled for you. For example -

    • If MS Teams Archiving is enabled for you, the Teams Chat and Teams Channel options are available for filtering.

    • If the search result has audio or video items, then the Audio-Video Transcript option is available for filtering.

    Direction

    Select items that have traveled in the specified direction. The options are as follows:

    • Not specified - Select to avoid choosing any direction.

    • Internal - Selects items where the author and all recipients are internal to your organization.

    • External Inbound - Selects items where the author is external to your organization and at least one recipient is internal.

    • External Outbound - Selects items where the author is internal to your organization and at least one recipient is external.

    Tags

    Select items by their tags.

    Tags action

    Select items by their tag actions.

    Sentiment score

    Select items based on the predefined sentiment score categories. A score in the range of 0 to 100 is assigned, where...

    • 0 - 39 indicates that the item expresses the negative sentiment.

    • 40 - 59 indicates that the item represents the neutral sentiment.

    • 60 - 100 indicates that the item represents the positive sentiment.

    To customize a different sentiment score range and use it as a preset later, click New sentiment score range. Specify the minimum and maximum score you want to capture, and provide a unique name to this preset. Click OK to save the preset as shown in the sample image below.

    Last marked by

    Select items by the person who has lastly changed a review status of the items.

    Comments

    Select items to which reviewers have added comments.

    Size

    Select items by their size in kilobytes.

    Number of attachments

    Select items by the number of attachments that they have.

    Capture method

    Select items by the method that Veritas Surveillance has used to capture them and add them to the review set. The options are:

    • Not specified - Select to avoid choosing any direction.

    • Search - Select to choose items that have been captured as a result of searches.

    • Ad-hoc. Select items that have been added to folders.

    • Random Sampling - Select to choose items that Veritas Surveillance has captured and added to the review set according to your designated monitoring policy.

    • Guaranteed Sample Search - Select to choose the results of guaranteed sample searches.

    • Tags - Select to choose items that Veritas Surveillance has captured and added to the review set according to designated tags.

    Escalation owner

    Select items by the escalation reviewer who has responsibility for them.

    Escalated by

    Select items by the person who escalated them to an escalation reviewer for further attention.

    Last appraised by

    Select items by the person who appraised the items.

    MPIP protected items

    Veritas Surveillance supports decryption of Microsoft Purview Information Protection (MPIP) protected items.

    Select items based on their encryption status, such as Unencrypted, Encrypted, Unknown. Note that non-SMTP journal items are detected as Unknown.

  5. You can apply marks to items by right-clicking the facet values. For example, to mark all the items by a particular author, right-click the author's name in the list and then click Mark all items. The Bulk Mark dialog appears. Enter your comment and click OK. The mark will be applied to all items with the selected facet value.
  6. Click Apply.

    Based on the selected filter criteria, the application displays all the filtered items in the right pane.