Performing Tasks That Are Common To All Security Policies - Symantec 20032623 - Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Implementation Manual

Performing tasks that are common to all security
policies
Security policy types (continued)
Table 10-1
Policy type
Intrusion Prevention policy
LiveUpdate policy
Exceptions policy
You can manage your Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition
security policies in many ways. For example, you can create copies of the security
policies and then customize the copies for your specific needs. You can lock and
unlock certain settings so that users cannot change them on the client computer.
Table 10-2 describes many of the policy tasks that you can perform.
Tasks common to all policies
Table 10-2
Task
Add a policy

Performing tasks that are common to all security policies

Description
The Intrusion Prevention policy automatically detects and
blocks network attacks and attacks on browsers.
Note:
Intrusion Prevention policies can be applied only to
Windows clients.
See Managing intrusion prevention on your client
computers" on page 229.
The LiveUpdate policy contains the settings that determine
when and how often client computers download content
updates from LiveUpdate.
See Managing content updates"
The Exceptions policy provides the ability to exclude
applications and processes from detection by the virus and
spyware scans and by SONAR.
See Managing exceptions for Symantec Endpoint Protection
Small Business Edition"
Description
If you do not want to use one of the default policies, you can
add a new policy.
Note: If you add or edit policies in the Policies page, you
must also assign the policies to a group. Otherwise those
policies are not effective.
See Adding a policy" on page 121.
Using policies to manage security
on page 251.
on page 238.
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