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.

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

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