Policy settings

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The Policies page allows you to dynamically configure agent functionality by defining policies that you can apply to hosts and host sets. To access the Policies page, select Policies on the Configure menu. Endpoint Security (HX) ships with the Agent Default policy, and you can configure additional policies.

To apply policies to host sets, see Assigning a policy to a host set.

The following configurations are available.

Policy

Description

Supported Agent Types

Real-Time Indicator Detection

Allows you to define a global policy for real-time indicator detection processing by agents.

Windows

macOS

Linux

Resource Use

Allows you to define global and exception policies that restrict general resource use by agents.

Windows

macOS

Linux

Concurrent Host Limit

Allows you to define an exception policy that limits the number of hosts in selected host sets that can concurrently run tasks on behalf of the HX appliance.

Windows

macOS

Linux

Exploit Guard

Allows you to define global and exception policies for how exploit detection and exploit prevention (Exploit Guard) are performed by agents in your environment.

Windows

Malware Protection

Allows you to define global and exception policies for how malware protection is performed by agents in your environment. Malware protection includes malware detection and quarantine.

Windows

macOS

Linux

Malware Scans

Allows you to define on-demand (scheduled) malware protection scans for the host endpoints.

Windows

macOS

Linux

Agent Logging

Allows you to define an exception policy for agent logging for selected host sets.

Windows

macOS

Linux

Prerequisites
  • Admin access