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What order are additional policies applied?

David Ashcroft

If you look at additional policies, what order are they actually applied?

It says in priority order, but is this from low to high or high to low?

If you have 40 additional policies, is it going to apply number 40 first and then move up each policy until it gets to 1? Or the other way around?

I am assuming it starts at 40, and ends with the highest priority 1 last based on what I am seeing myself.

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    Top down.

    Qualify that, after the inbuilt policies are applied.

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Thanks for that, I am a little confused now then....

    We have an additional policy which is number 19, the rule is called YouTube Allow, and it basically set the category of "Streaming Media" to Allow.

    We then have a default student policy at number 23, this has BLOCK for "Streaming Media". I have just tested a student that falls into both of these categories and it seems they are allowed YouTube. They are supposed to have YouTube, but I don't understand how it is working, my thought process is:

    Sophos has noticed the student is in the group for default student and youtube_allow. It runs down the policy list starting at 1. It hits rule 19 and sets streaming media to ALLOW, it then continues down the policies and sees that it also matches the default student policy at 23, sees that it should block streaming media so sets it back to block.

    Because the block policy is applied last, should the result not be that YouTube is blocked?

    Thanks.

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    Thanks for that, I am a little confused now then....

    We have an additional policy which is number 19, the rule is called YouTube Allow, and it basically set the category of "Streaming Media" to Allow.

    We then have a default student policy at number 23, this has BLOCK for "Streaming Media". I have just tested a student that falls into both of these categories and it seems they are allowed YouTube. They are supposed to have YouTube, but I don't understand how it is working, my thought process is:

    Sophos has noticed the student is in the group for default student and youtube_allow. It runs down the policy list starting at 1. It hits rule 19 and sets streaming media to ALLOW, it then continues down the policies and sees that it also matches the default student policy at 23, sees that it should block streaming media so sets it back to block.

    Because the block policy is applied last, should the result not be that YouTube is blocked?

    Thanks.

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  • 0 in reply to David Ashcroft

    The policy order is from 1 down to 40 in your case. The process stops when it finds a match.

    The second policy is a waste of time because it will never be reached.

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