Kaspersky Security Center policies

A policy is a set of Kaspersky Endpoint Security settings that are applied to all client devices included in the administration group.

Multiple policies with different values of the settings can be configured for a single application. However, there can be only one active policy at a time for an application within an administration group. When you create a new policy, all other policies within an administration group become inactive. You can change the policy status later.

Policies have a hierarchy, similarly to administration groups. By default, a child policy inherits the settings from the parent policy. A child policy is a policy of a nested hierarchy level, that is, a policy for nested administration groups and secondary Administration Servers. You can enable inheritance of the settings from the parent policy.

You can locally modify the values of the settings specified by the policy for individual devices within the administration group, if modification of these settings is not prohibited by the policy.

Using policy profiles allows you to flexibly configure operation settings for the application. A policy profile may contain settings that differ from the "base" policy settings and apply to client devices when the configured conditions (activation rules) are met. Using policy profiles allows you to flexibly configure operation settings for different devices. You can create and configure profiles in the Policy profiles section of the policy properties.

Each policy setting has a "lock" attribute that indicates whether child policy settings and local application settings can be modified. The "lock" status of a setting within policy properties determines whether or not an application setting on a client device can be edited:

• When a setting is "locked" (), you cannot edit its value locally or in the policies of the nested hierarchy level. The setting value specified by the policy is used for all client devices within the administration group and nested groups.
• When a setting is "unlocked" (), you can edit its value locally or in the policies of the nested hierarchy level. If setting values are specified locally or in policy properties of a nested hierarchy level for client devices within an administration group, the setting value specified in the policy properties is not applied.

In the web plug-in and in the MMC plug-in, the number of parameters with "locks" is different. The web plug-in includes "locks" that are not present in the MMC plug-in.

After the policy is applied for the first time, the application settings change in accordance with the policy settings.

For more details about policies and policy profiles, refer to the Kaspersky Security Center Help system.

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