Policies and Threat Prevention

Policies are collections of settings that you create, configure, and apply, then enforce. Most policy settings correspond to settings that you configure in the Trellix Endpoint Security (ENS) Client. Other policy settings are the primary interface for configuring the software.

Policy enforcement ensures consistent security configurations across the environment, preventing unauthorized changes and maintaining a secure endpoint posture. Policy enforcement is enabled by default, and is inherited in the System Tree, but you can manually enable or disable enforcement on specified systems by adjusting the Enforcement status to Enforcing or Not enforcing.

Policy Categories

Your managed product adds these categories to the Policy Catalog. The available settings vary in each category.

Threat Prevention categories

Category	Category
Access Protection	Prevents unwanted changes to the client system by restricting access to specified files, shares, registry keys, registry values, processes, and services.
Exploit Prevention	Prevents unwanted changes to the client system by restricting access to files, shares, registry keys, registry values, processes, and services. Prevents applications from executing arbitrary code. Detects and prevents known network-based attacks.
On-Access Scan	Configures scheduled scanning of all processes, including maximum scan time and threat-detection message configuration.
On-Demand Scan	Configures preconfigured scans that run on the client system, including: Full Scan and Quick Scan from the Trellix Endpoint Security (ENS) Client Right-Click Scan on the client system Custom On-Demand Scan client tasks, scheduled from Trellix ePO - On-prem
Options	Configures the settings that apply to both the on-access scanner and on-demand scanner.

Customizing policies (McAfee ePO)

Each policy category includes default policies.

You can use default policies as is, edit the My Default default policies, or create policies.

Threat Prevention default policies

Policy	Description	Management platform
Trellix Default	Defines the default policy that takes effect if no other policy is applied. You can duplicate, but not delete or change, this policy.	All
My Default	Defines default settings for the category.	McAfee ePO
On-Access Scan for Exchange	Defines an on-access scan policy with exclusions for Microsoft Exchange Server. This policy isn't applied until you assigned it to systems. For information, see Knowledge Base article KB51471.	All

Comparing policies

In Trellix ePO - On-prem 5.0 and later, you can compare policies within the same policy category using Policy Comparison.

For information about policies and the Policy Catalog, see the Trellix ePO - On-prem documentation.