Specifications

Trend Micro™ OfficeScan™ 10 Administrator’s Guide
10-10
Policy Server Policies and Rules
Policy Servers use configurable rules and policies to help enforce your organization’s
security guidelines.
Rules include specific criteria that Policy Servers use to compare with the security
posture of OfficeScan clients. If the client security posture matches the criteria you
configure in a rule, the client and server carry out the actions you specify in the rule (see
Policy Server and OfficeScan Client Actions on page 10-12).
Policies include one or more rules. Assign one policy to each registered OfficeScan server
on the network for both outbreak mode and normal mode (see Outbreak Protection on
page 5-57 for more information on network modes).
If the OfficeScan client security posture matches the criteria in a rule that belongs to the
policy, the OfficeScan client carries out the actions you configure in the rule. However, if
the client security posture does not match any of the criteria in any of the rules
associated with the policy, you can still configure default actions in the policy for the
client and server to carry out (see Policy Server and OfficeScan Client Actions on page 10-12).
Tip: If you want certain clients in an OfficeScan domain to have different outbreak and
normal mode policies from other clients in the same domain, Trend Micro suggests
restructuring the domains to group clients with similar requirement (see OfficeScan
Domains on page 2-20).
Rule Composition
Rules include security posture criteria, default responses associated with clients, and
actions that clients and the Policy Server perform.