Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance: Process Skipped for safedomain.com

Process Skipped for safedomain.com

Question

Which process is skipped when an email is received from safedomain.com, which is on the safelist?

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A. B. C. D.

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https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/email-security-appliance/214269-filter-to-handle-messages-that-skipped-d.html

When an email is received from a domain that is on the safelist, it means that the email has already been identified as safe by the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA).

The safelist is a list of domains that have been explicitly marked as safe and are allowed to bypass some of the security checks performed by the ESA. This means that certain processes can be skipped when an email is received from a domain on the safelist, as the ESA already knows that the email is safe.

Out of the options listed, the process that is skipped when an email is received from a safelisted domain is D. antispam scanning. Antispam scanning is a process that checks incoming emails for spam and other unsolicited messages. Since emails from safelisted domains are already considered safe, they do not need to be checked for spam.

However, it is important to note that skipping antispam scanning for emails from safelisted domains does not mean that the ESA is not performing any security checks on those emails. The ESA still performs other security checks, such as antivirus scanning, to ensure that the email is not carrying any malicious content.

Therefore, options A (message filter), B (antivirus scanning), and C (outbreak filter) are not skipped when an email is received from a safelisted domain. These processes are still performed by the ESA to ensure the security of the email system.