McAfee Data Loss Prevention 9.2.2 Product Guide

Managing policies and rulesAdd, modify, and deploy policies 9Policy activationPolicies must be activated before their rules can be applied to network data. By default, rules areenabled when their policies are activated, but they can be configured to run alone.Policies must also be deployed to at least one McAfee DLP appliance before the system can reportincidents and events.It is not necessary to activate all regional policies at once. For example, United Kingdomusers might add the EMEA regional policy package, but activate only the UK policy.Similarly, North American users might want to use only U.S. government regulatorypolicies, like HIPAA, SOX and ITAR.There are three ways to activate policies.• In the Setup Wizard, select the checkboxes of the policies to be activated after installationis complete.• On the Policies page, select policy checkboxes and select Activate from the Actions menu.• On the Edit Policy page, select Active from the State menu.Activate or deactivate policiesThe rules of a policy will not run unless it is activated. Its rules will not run unless they are enabled.Policies are usually activated during installation, but their states can be reset on the Policies or Edit Policypages.Task1 Select one of these options:• In ePolicy Orchestrator, select Menu | Data Loss Prevention | DLP Policies | Policies.• On your McAfee DLP appliance, select Policies.2 Select one or more policies to be activated.• From the Actions menu, select Activate and verify the change in the State column.• Click a policy name and select an activation state from the State menu.3 Click Save.Add, modify, and deploy policiesAdd, modify and deploy policies to assure efficient performance of the system.McAfee Data Loss Prevention 9.2.2 Product Guide 207