Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S380 Guida Utente

A policy group is an administrator defined configuration that allows you to apply acceptable use policies 
to specific categories of users. After you create policy groups, you can define the control settings for 
each group. 

You can create as many user defined policy groups as required to enforce the proper access control. The 
Web Security appliance displays policy groups together in a policies table.

All policies have a default, global policy group that applies to a transaction if none of the user defined 
policy groups apply. A global policy group maintains default settings and rules that apply to web 
transactions not covered by another policy. This group appears in the last row of a policies table, and the 
Web Proxy applies its rules last if no other matching occurs.

You can create policy groups based on combinations of several criteria, such as client subnet or the URL 
category of the destination site. You must define at least one criterion for policy group membership. 
When you define multiple criteria, the client request must meet all criteria to match the policy group.

Options used to configure policy groups allow you to specify exceptions to global policy settings and 
control access to services for groups of users.

For more information about creating policy groups for the different policy types, see the following 
locations:

The policies table is an ordered list of policy groups and the settings you configure for each filtering 
component. It displays policy groups by row and control settings by column. The control settings you 
can define vary by policy type.

 shows the Access Policies table.