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Accountability

The DrawBridge supports an Accountability model to facilitate voluntary, centrally-administered, information sharing and content filter configuration of Member Companies by specified administrators in a community context.

Accountability Relationships

The following records can be associated with an Accountability Policy Record:

Record Type Role
Person Accountability Contact: view reports and set configurations on Member Companies
Company Accountability Member Company: enable features detailed below

Accountability feature enablement

If a Company Owner opts-in to be a Member of an Accountabilility Policy, this enables:

  • Central administration of Accountability-associated Reports and Access Policies for all Member Companies
    • Reports associated with an Accountability Policy automatically apply to all Member Companies as Report Presets. Changes to those reports automatically propagate to all Member Companies.
    • Access Policies associated with an Accountability policy are made available to all Member Companies as a Policy Group that can be easily joined by Member Companies. Changes to that particular Access Policy automatically propagate to all Member Companies.
  • Authorized parties associated to that Accountability Policy to access report information and control filter policy configuration for that Company, depending on the specific configuration
  • Community Accountability-level Preference configurations to override Company-level Preference configurations (see Preferences page for more information)

Example

The people in the Golden Sands Christian Fellowship church community want to have a uniform content filter policy across their brotherhood, as well as have specific individuals responsible to administer the policy and review all their web usage.

To answer this need, the Golden Sands Christian Fellowship Accountability Policy is created, and several people are associated with it as Accountability Contacts (see Relationships page for more information).

This Accountability Policy has several associations:

  • The people that are designated as Accountability Contacts.
  • A Church Preferences Access Policy that sets the Action on a number of Categories to Allow.
  • A Summary Report configured that displays the genres of information being accessed by each Company, to be sent to the designated Accountability Contacts.

Those using DrawBridge filtering in the brotherhood then opt-in their Companies to the Policy. This performs the following:

  • Enables the specified Accountability Contacts to view the report data and filter configurations of all Member Companies in the DrawBridge Console.
  • Makes the centrally-administered Church Preferences Access Policy available to them to apply to their Company.
    • Each Company Owner then applies the Church Preferences Access Policy by assigning it to his alldevices Device Group.
  • Automatically configures the Summary report to the member Company, with delivery to the Accountability Contacts.
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