Managing Access Control Policies

You can edit system-provided access control policies and create custom access control policies.

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Policies > Access Control heading > Access Control.

At the top of the page, there are convenient links to some related features: Object management, Intrusion policies, Network Analysis policies, DNS policies, and policy Import/Export.

Step 2

Manage access control policies:

Create—Click New PolicyNew Policy; see Creating a Basic Access Control Policy.
Inheritance—Click Plus next to a policy with descendants to expand your view of the policy's hierarchy.
Edit—Click Edit (); see Editing an Access Control Policy
Delete—Click Delete (). You must remove any device assignments before deleting a policy.
Copy—Click Copy (). Device assignments are not retained in the copy.
Report—Click Report ().. The report is generated as a background process. Go to the message/notifications center and look in the Tasks list. When the report is finished, you can download it from the notification.
Lock or unlock a policy—See Locking an Access Control Policy.