How do administrators create policies?
Policies are created through a simple to use graphical interface in the administrative console. Policies can be as broad as is required, for example a class of storage media devices prohibited altogether, or much more specific and narrow, for example allowing only certain users to write data to a specified list of USB memory devices. With all policies the options to restrict read and write privileges, in addition to logging, notification, alerts, and data shadowing are supported. The policy specification capabilities in the product make it easy and intuitive to create and deploy policies that are aligned with the roles of users and machines throughout the network environment. In many cases organizations will deploy the product with no policy enforcement to document the port and device usage and associated data transfer acuities. This provides insight into the expected activity on endpoints and provides the starting point for implementing policies to restrict unapproved activity.
Policies are created through a simple to use graphical interface in the administrative console. Policies can be as broad as is required, for example a class of storage media devices prohibited altogether, or much more specific and narrow, for example allowing only certain users to write data to a specified list of USB memory devices. With all policies the options to restrict read and write privileges, in addition to logging, notification, alerts, and data shadowing are supported. The policy specification capabilities in the product make it easy and intuitive to create and deploy policies that are aligned with the roles of users and machines throughout the network environment. In many cases organizations will deploy the product with no policy enforcement to document the port and device usage and associated data transfer acuities. This provides insight into the expected activity on endpoints and provides the starting point for implementing policies to restrict unapproved activity.
