McAfee Data Loss Prevention 9.2.2 Product Guide

Managing policies and rulesIdentify exceptions to rules 9Add new rules with exceptionsAdd exceptions to rules to assure that they report only relevant results. When rules contain attributesthat are too broad, false positives might be reported.Task1 Select one of these options:• In ePolicy Orchestrator, select Menu | Data Loss Prevention | DLP Policies .• On your McAfee DLP appliance, select Policies.2 Click a policy name to which the rule will be added.3 On the Edit Policy page, select Add Rule from the Actions menu.4 Type in a rule name and optional description.5 Set the Inherit Policy State to Enabled.If the rule is to be tuned, leave it in Disabled state so it can be run independent of its policy until itreports the needed results reliably.6 Select a Severity to rate the importance of the rule.7 Click the Exceptions tab.8 Open Exception 1 and enter a note describing the exception, then use the components to define theexception to the rule.9 If additional parameters are needed, open more Exceptions and define them.10 Click Save.McAfee Data Loss Prevention 9.2.2 Product Guide 219