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Chapter 5: Device Configuration
Policy Enforcement
The order in which a policy is enforced depends on two factors:
1 Ranking of the policy
2 Precedence of the policy
Policies have an internal ranking system that stacks the policies in the order shown in
Figure 68.
Figure 68 Order of Policy Enforcement
This ranking is done within the system and cannot be overridden by users. However,
within malware and user policies, you can assign a priority level or precedence to a
policy. You can also assign a precedence number to the rules within a policy.
Precedence
Malware and user policies allow you to assign a precedence number to rule and policies.
These precedence numbers are secondary to the overall ranking of the policies.
Filter Precedence
A policy can have many rules; therefore, you can assign a precedence number to the filter
statements of a rule. The precedence of a filter determines the order in which the rule is
applied for a specific user. Precedence numbers can be in the range of 1 to 65535, where 1
has the highest precedence and 65535 the lowest.
Policy Precedence
When a user policy is applied to a role, it too can have a precedence. Policy precedence
comes before rules precedence. Figure 69 shows an example of policy precedence.
Figure 70 shows an example of configured role and policies.
Malware Policies
EPV Trigger Policies
EPV Posture Policies
System Policies
User Policies
EPV Bypass Policies
User Override Policies