Policies include any number of rules and the same default responses and actions used in rules. See Default Policies for a summary of the default policies that come configured with Policy Server.
Policy Server enforces rules in a specific order, which allows you to prioritize your rules. You can change the order of rules, add new rules, and remove existing rules from a policy at any time.
Like rules, policies include default responses to help you understand the condition of OfficeScan clients on your network when client validation occurs. However, the default responses apply to clients only when client security posture does not match any rule in the policy.
The responses for policies are the same as those for rules (see Rule Composition for the list of responses).
Note: You cannot add, delete, or modify responses.
The OfficeScan client and the Policy Server can carry out the same set of actions for policies as they do for rules. However, the actions execute only when client security posture does NOT match any rule in the policy (see Rule Composition for a list of actions).