F-SECURE POLICY MANAGER 7.0 -, Administrator'S Manual

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Introduction
P erformance Management
Statistics and performance data handling and reporting.
T ask Management
Management of virus scanning tasks and other operations.
1.4 P olicy-Based Management
A security policy is a set of well-defined rules that regulate how sensitive
information and other resources are managed, protected, and distributed.
The management architecture of F-Secure software uses policies that are
centrally configured by the administrator for optimum control of security in
a corporate environment. Policy-based management implements many
functions:
Remotely controlling and monitoring the behavior of the products
Monitoring statistics provided by the products and the
Management Agent
Remotely starting predefined operations
Transmission of alerts and notifications from the products to the
system administrator
The information flow between F-Secure Policy Manager Console and the
hosts is accomplished by transferring policy files. There are three kinds of
policy files:
Default Policy files ( .dpf )
Base Policy files ( .bpf )
Incremental Policy files ( .ipf )
The current settings of a product consist of all three policy file types: