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

Reviewing searched items

Before you start reviewing items, you must know that you can view emails if the Exchange service is enabled for you. However, if the service is enabled, but the search does not find any record, the items grid is displayed without any items in it.

To review items and checking their tags and hotwords statistics

  1. In the left navigation pane, click Review.
  2. Search for and select the department for which you want to review items.

    Veritas Surveillance lists all departments for which you have the review permissions.

  3. (Optional) Use Advanced Filter and Filters to view the precise review items quickly. To reset the filtering criteria, click Clear, set a new criterion, and click Apply.

    The application displays items from the selected departments.

    The item grid displays several columns. Based on your review priorities and focus, you can rearrange the column sequence and click on the column headings to sort the items in a particular order. For example, to prioritize and focus more on the items that are relevant for review, you can pay attention to the Relevance Score column. The items with the higher relevance score are more relevant, whereas the items with the low relevance score tend to be irrelevant.

    Note:

    The Relevance Score column is displayed in the list pane by default. However, the score (value) 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.

  4. In the items grid, select the email you want to review.
    • If you select an individual email in the items grid, you can view the Preview, Comments, and the History tabs.

      • On the Preview tab, you can view email metadata and content.

      • On the Comments tab, you can view previous review comments for the selected email.

      • On the History tab, you can view the detailed summary of the operations that are performed on the selected email.

    • If you select multiple items in the items grid, you cannot view the Preview, Comments, and the History tabs. Instead, you get options to assign a review statuses to all the selected messages simultaneously.

    To comment on the selected email, click Add Comment. See Adding comments to items.

    To assign status to the selected email, click Pending, Questioned, Review Irrelevant, Reviewed Relevant, Escalate, or Appraised as required.

  5. To view the tags-specific statistics of the selected email, in the Item Statistics pane, expand the Tags section.

    This statistic is limited to emails only, and not calculated for transcript messages (audio/video) and collaboration messages. The displayed information includes the names of applied tags or classification policies. Next to each tag name, the number of incidents that match the corresponding tags or policies in the selected items is shown. After you expand the tag name, the application displays number of matches in the top-level content of the item and in each attachment of the item. See the sample image below.

    Note:

    By default, Veritas Surveillance analyses and displays the statistics only for the tags that are found in each item and have a match. Tags that do not match are not shown in the list.

    The Top Level node and the attachments nodes are visible only if the emails have the specified tags. If there are no matches for the tags in the primary emails, the Top Level node will not be displayed. Similarly, if there are no matches for the tags in the attachments, those attachments will also not be displayed.

    Click the hyperlinks to view the respective tags in the Preview pane. Click the arrows to navigate to the next or previous match. The navigation is limited to the content of email body message and attachments, and not within the email metadata.

  6. To view the hotwords-specific statistics of the selected email, in the Item Statistics pane, expand the Hotwords section.

    This statistic is limited to emails only, and not calculated for transcript messages (audio/video) and collaboration messages. The displayed information includes the names of hotwords sets and individual hotwords. Next to each entry, the number of incidents that match the corresponding hotwords or hotwords sets in the selected items is shown. After you expand the hotwords set name, the application displays the included hotwords and their number of matches in the top-level content of the email and in each attachment of the email. See the sample image below.

    By default, Veritas Surveillance analyses and displays the statistics of hotwords that are found in each item and have a match. Hotwords and hotword sets that do not match are not shown in the list.

    The Top Level node and the attachments nodes are visible only if the content within them contains the specified hotwords. In case there are no matches for the hotwords in the primary emails, the Top Level node will not be displayed. Similarly, if there are no matches for the hotwords in the attachments, those attachments will also not be displayed.

    Click the hyperlinks to view the respective hotwords in the Preview pane. Click the arrows to navigate to the next or previous match. The navigation is limited to the content of email body message and attachments, and not within the email metadata.

    Veritas Surveillance supports viewing image attachments in review items in both HTML and Native formats. If the attached image contains hotwords, clicking the hyperlink from the hotwords statistics panel opens the image in HTML format for convenient review of the hotwords. You can preview the hotwords in the images in the following ways:

    • Access the Hotwords pane. Expand the top-level hotword and check for the image hyperlink. If listed, click the hyperlink to open the HTML preview of the image directly.

    • In the Preview pane, select the image and click the HTML Preview icon to open the image in the HTML format.

    • In the Preview pane, right-click the attached image and select the HTML Preview option.