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What is Sentinel and how does it work?

An overview of Sentinel, MirrorWeb's AI-powered compliance monitoring.

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Written by Harriet Christie

Summary

Sentinel is the area of MirrorWeb Insight that surfaces compliance alerts raised against your organisation's communications. As messages are processed, scenarios evaluate them and produce a total score and a risk level. Messages that trigger one or more scenarios appear as alerts for your team to review and mark as compliant or non-compliant.

Sentinel is organised into the following areas, which appear under the Sentinel heading in the sidebar navigation:

  • Alerts — review individual alerts and take action on them.

  • Dashboard — an overview of processed messages, total alerts, active scenarios, and suggestions.

  • Scenarios — view scenario categories and the scenarios within them.

  • Variables — configure custom variables used in detection.

  • Suggestions — review suggested phrases to exclude and suggested marketing addresses (shown only to users with the relevant permissions).

Prerequisites

  • Login credentials to MirrorWeb Insight

  • Access to an organisation that has Sentinel enabled

How It Works

Alerts

The Alerts page lists messages that have triggered one or more scenarios. Each alert shows its associated scenario categories, a Score, and a risk level badge. From an alert you can mark it Compliant or Non-Compliant, escalate it, view it in context, and action similar alerts. See How to view and review alerts.

The Sentinel sidebar navigation showing Alerts, Dashboard, Scenarios, Variables, and Suggestions

Dashboard

The Sentinel Dashboard is headed "Sentinel Dashboard - {organisation name}" and shows summary stat cards (for example Messages processed, Total alerts, and Active scenarios), an Active alerts by Category chart, and a Pending Sentinel Alerts panel. See How to navigate the Sentinel dashboard.

The Sentinel Dashboard showing stat cards, the category chart, and pending alerts

Scenarios and categories

Scenarios are grouped into scenario categories. The Scenarios page is headed "Scenario Categories" and lists each category. Categories can be enabled or disabled and assigned a risk level by users with the appropriate permissions. See How to manage scenario categories and How to manage alert scenarios.

The Scenario Categories page listing categories

Variables and suggestions

Custom Variables let an organisation configure template values used across scenarios. Suggestions surface recommended phrases to exclude and recommended marketing addresses. See How to configure scenario variables and How to review Sentinel suggestions.

The Custom Variables page

Notes

Note: The areas a user sees depend on their permissions. The Suggestions item only appears for users with flag-write or marketing-write access.

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