Secure Cloud Access provides a flexible and comprehensive set of tools for creating notifications for policy enforcement and communication of critical messages regarding protection of data. You can create notifications for a variety of data security needs and cloud applications, devices, and network environments. You can then apply those preconfigured notifications to multiple inline and API access policies. Because notifications are created separately from policies, you can apply notifications consistently across policies and customize them conveniently as needed.

You can also view an audit trail of past notifications and export this information for historical purposes. Notifications are created and managed from these areas in the Management Console:

• Administration > Enterprise Integration > Notification Channels for creating channels used by cloud applications
• Administration > Notification Management for creating templates and building notifications with the appropriate templates and channels

• Administration > System Settings > Alert Configuration for setting threshold values to receive email notifications

  The workflow for creating notifications includes these steps:

  1. Create channels to define the communication method for issuing a notification.
  2. Create templates to specify the text and format for the notification.

  3. Create the notification itself, which includes the channel and the template needed for the notification. Once you have created a notification, you can apply it to the appropriate policies.

     The following topics provide instructions for creating notifications.

• Creating notification channels
• Creating notification templates
• Creating notifications to apply to policies