The policy management options provided by the Lookout Cloud Security Platform enable you to protect the sensitive data stored in your organization's sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud applications. In addition, Secure Internet Access enables you to set policies to monitor web traffic in your organization and limit access to specific sites or categories of sites.

Through the Secure Cloud Access policy engine, you can control access to information by specifying the conditions under which users can access, create, share, and manipulate data, and the actions to address violations of those policies. The policies you set determine what is protected and how.

Secure Cloud Access enables you to configure your security settings to create policies that will protect data stored in multiple cloud applications and devices. These configurations streamline the process of creating and updating policies.

In addition to protecting data, Secure Cloud Access supports Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which can detect sensitive information in image files that have been uploaded to a cloud using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). For example, a user might have uploaded a photo, a screen shot, or other image file (.png, .jpg, .gif, and so on) that shows a credit card number, social security number, employee ID, or other sensitive information. When creating policies, you can enable the OCR option (a checkbox), which will apply protection actions to image files. OCR can be enabled in policies for cloud applications with API protection modes.

OCR protection can also be applied to policies for files that include images; for example, a PDF or a Microsoft Word file that includes one or more images within the file.