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Migrate to Email security

This page aims at showing you how to perform Area 1 actions in Zero Trust Email security, and new terminology introduced in Email security.

Contact support

In Area 1, you can reach out to support via the following email addresses:

In Email security, you can raise a ticket by contacting technical support on the Cloudflare dashboard:

  1. Select your account and choose Technical support.
  2. In Solve your issue, answer the following questions:
    • What type of question do you have? Select Technical - Other Products
    • In what area can we help you? Select Email security
    • What feature, service or problem is this related to? Choose among Configuration, Detections or PhishGuard.

Invite users

In Area 1, you invite users by logging in to the Area 1 portal and inviting members.

To invite users in Zero Trust Email security:

  1. Log in to Cloudflare One.
  2. Go to Manage Account.
  3. Select Members > Invite > Add account members.

Once you have added new account members, you will have to assign each member an Email security role.

Area 1Email securityDescription
N/ACloudflare Zero TrustCan edit Cloudflare Zero Trust. Has administrator access to all Zero Trust products including Access, Gateway, the Cloudflare One Client, Tunnel, Browser Isolation, CASB, DLP, DEX, and Email security.
Super AdminEmail security Analyst + Email security Configuration Admin = Super AdminHas full access to all admin features in Email security
Configuration AdminEmail security Configuration AdminHas administrator access. Cannot take actions on emails, or read emails
SOC AnalystEmail security AnalystHas analyst access. Can take action on emails and read emails.
ViewerEmail security ReportingCan read metrics
N/ACloudflare Zero Trust PIICan read PII in Zero Trust (this includes Email security)
N/AEmail security Policy AdminCan read all settings, but only write allow policies, trusted domains, and blocked senders

Create webhooks

In Area 1, you can create alert webhooks.

In Zero Trust Email security, webhooks are instead referred to as logs. You can enable detection logs and/or user action logs. Additionally, you can enable Outbound Data Loss Prevention to protect sensitive information in outbound emails.

Set up system alerts

You can check the Area 1 and Email security status in the Cloudflare System Status.

To view Area 1 status:

  • Search for Email security (Area1) and check that the status is set to Operational. This means that emails are being processed.
  • Search for Area 1 - Dash to check the status of the Area 1 dashboard.
  • Search for Area 1 - API to check the status of the API endpoints.

To view Email security status:

  • Search for Email security (Zero Trust) and check that the status is set to Operational. This means that emails are being processed.
  • Search for Zero Trust Dashboard to check the status of the Zero Trust dashboard.
  • Search for API to check the status of the API endpoints.

You can also check the status of APIs through the Cloudflare Status API and configure Cloudflare Notifications.

Email reports

In Area 1, you receive daily or weekly updates of the number of emails dispositioned.

In Email security, you can view email monitoring over the last 90, 30, 7, 3, 1 day(s).

Email alerts for detections

In Area 1, you receive an email when an email is assigned a disposition.

In Email security, you enable Logpush to enable detection logs.

Search emails

In Area 1, you can perform two types of search: Fielded Search and Freeform Search.

In Email security, the ability to search emails has been expanded. You can use three different screen criteria to search emails:

Check metrics

In Area 1, you can check statistics in your Home section.

In Email security, you can check your metrics in the Monitoring section in the dashboard.

Move messages to a specific folder

Area 1 allows you to set up message retraction to move messages to specific folders. This is known as retraction.

Moving messages to a specific folder is known as auto-moves in Zero Trust Email security.

Create policies

This table displays the difference in terminology used when creating policies:

Area 1Email security
Allowed patternsAllow policies
Block listsBlocked senders
Trusted domainsTrusted domains
Text add-onsText add-ons
Link actionsLink actions
Added detectionsAdditional detections

Submissions

This table displays the difference in terminology used when finding emails whose disposition is incorrect:

Area 1Email security
Report false negative/false positiveSubmit messages for review
N/AEscalate user submissions
Team submissionTeam submissions
User submissionUser submissions

Business Email Compromise

In Area 1, you can set up a Business email compromise (BEC) list to protect against attackers who try to impersonate executives.

In Email security, this feature is known as impersonation registry.

Synchronize directories

In Area 1, you can integrate directories in your email provider.

In Email security, you can add and sync directories.

API

To access Area 1 API, go to the API Documentation. You can set up a service account to configure API tokens.

To access Email security API, go to Email security API. You can set up an API token to use the Email security API.