G DATA 365 | Managed XDR

Organization units

Organization units offer you the option of combining endpoints with identical characteristics.

These characteristics can be departments or even locations of your company. Endpoints with the same exceptions (for example all Microsoft Exchange servers or all database servers) make sense, as our G DATA Security Operations Team can apply exceptions and security settings not only to endpoints, but also to organization units.

Organization units can also be assigned to other users by an authorized user.
This allows you to limit users' access to endpoints contained in their assigned organization unit. The assignment gives a user permission only to the endpoints in their organization unit as well as all those below it.

In the kickoff, our G DATA Security Operations Team supports you in setting up the structure that makes the most sense for you. This structure may or may not correspond to your Active Directory structure.

Management within the G DATA Web Portal

G DATA 365 | Managed XDR Organization management

In this portal window, permitted users can view the hierarchical structure of your organization units.

The organization unit Default

Initially, only the standard organization unit Default is located below your root (customer name). You can create further organization units.

The Default organization unit cannot be deleted. For reasons of clarity, you should not rename or move this. Newly installed agents are always assigned to Default first and can be moved from there to the intended unit.

The detail view
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Detail view OU

Clicking on the line of your customer organization unit opens the detail view. Depending on the settings and permissions, you have several configuration options here:

  • Activating two-factor authentication

  • Activation of DeviceControl

  • Display of the tray icon on the endpoints

  • Activating notifications on the endpoints

If not all the configuration options listed here are available at this point, this may be due to your permissions or because you do not own the respective product.

If you select a subordinate organizational unit (not type: Customer, but type: Organization), the "Management" category is omitted in the detail view. In this case you can rename the selected organization unit or move it in the hierarchy.

You can also move organizational units using drag & drop. However, we recommend using the "Move" button in the detail view.

Create organization unit

Click on symbol to open the window for creating a new organization unit below the clicked unit.

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G DATA 365 | Managed XDR Organization management

Delete organization unit

If you want to delete an organizational unit, you can do so using the delete OU button. After you confirm the deletion, the organizational unit will be removed.

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delete G DATA 365 | Managed XDR organization unit

Depending on the role profile of the logged-in user, it may happen that the user does not see all organization units and/or the Add icon icon is missing, as the user may lack the corresponding permissions.