Policy Inheritance and Customization

If you create a new security policy, it will inherit dope.swg’s Base Policy. You can adapt a policy to your individual user needs. And you can undo any policy changes by just reverting back to the dope.swg Base Policy. It's simple. It’s safe.

Inheritance

Any new policy you create will inherit the entire base policy. An “Inherits Base” tag is visible in all the policy screens to highlight this.

Dope Categories with the “Inherits Base” tag

Cloud Application Control with the “Inherits Base” tag

For a policy that inherits from base, you can jump back to the base policy by hovering over the “Inherits Base” tag . This will change to a “Go to Base Policy” tag when hovering. If you choose to select, you will be taken to the same policy section of the Base Policy.

A policy that inherits from Base Policy will be automatically updated when an update is made to the Base Policy.

Customization

A policy section will become customized once any edits are made to that section.

Once a policy section is customized, any edits made within the policy section will only affect that policy.

A policy has the following sections:

• Dope Categories (includes Custom Categories)

• Cloud Application Control

• Bypass

  • Domain Bypass

  • Application Bypass

Dope Categories Customization

Any of the following edits will result in the section becoming Customized:

• Restriction level change for parent category, subcategory, and custom category

• New policy exceptions

• Updates to the block, security risk, and warning page assignments

Cloud Application Control

Any of the following edits will result in the section becoming Customized:

• Addition of a new domain, sub domain, tenant ID, or account ID to any application

• Enabling a Cloud Application not already enabled

• Disabling a Cloud Application already enabled

Domain Bypass

Any of the following edits will result in the section becoming Customized:

• Addition or deletion of a domain

Application Bypass

Any of the following edits will result in the section becoming Customized:

• Addition or deletion of an application

For a customized policy section you can revert it back to Base Policy by simply hovering over the “Customized” tag . This will change to a “Reset Policy” tag when hovering. Selecting the Arrow icon will revert the policy section back to the Base configuration.