Managing policies

Author new or select existing resource or policy information and validate the rules or the policy for compliance by:

• Creating a new-resource.json file or select a JSON that contains resource information
• Creating a new-policy.yaml file or select a YAML file that contains policy information

For details about how to author a policy, see Creating a new policy. Prior to creating a custom policy, review the following reference information:

• To see some sample custom policies and their corresponding resource feed JSON files, see Sample custom policies.
• To review authoring guidelines see Authoring policies.

Remediation can be enabled or disabled under More Actions on the Manage Policies page after selecting the required policy/policies from the Policy column.

• To enable remediation, click on More Actions and then choose the type of remediation preferred from the following two types:

1. Auto Remediation: Remediation action takes place automatically if the selected the rule name has been violated.
2. On-Demand Remediation: Remediation action takes place according to user discretion if the selected the rule name has been violated.

• To disable remediation, click on Actions and then choose Disable Remediation option from the cascading menu.
  

Import from the Policy Library

Import any policy from the library that is bundled with Cloud Security.

Select the check box in the header row of the policies table and then select More Actions > Delete Policies to delete all the policies in Cloud Security.

Select a check box corresponding to the particular policy, and then select Actions > Delete to delete that policy.

Select a check box corresponding to a particular policy, and then select Actions > Download Policy to download a YAML file for a selected policy.

This is the only option available for View Only users.

Select a check box corresponding to a particular policy, and then select Actions > Upload Policy to upload a YAML file for a selected policy.