Creating a security policy in the MaaS360 Portal
MaaS360® allows you to create and push security policies to devices in your organization.
Procedure
- From the MaaS360 Portal Home page, select Security > Policies.
- Click Add Policy.
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Provide the following settings for the policy:
Setting Description Name The name of the policy. Description The description of the policy. Type The type of the policy that you want to create. - Select an MDM policy to control device-level features and functions.
- Select WorkPlace Persona to configure settings in theMaaS360 apps.
Note: MaaS360 offers both MDM and WorkPlace Persona policies in a mixed (MDM+SPS) mode account.
Start From The basis for the new policy. You can start from one of the following options: - My Existing Policies: MaaS360 copies the policy configurations from existing policies.
- Community Based Policy: The MaaS360 policy recommendation engine suggests policy settings based on policies configured by similar organizations in the MaaS360 community. For more information, see Creating a community based policy.
- Business Templates Based Policy: MaaS360 provides a set of pre-defined (canned) templates based on common business use cases. For more information, see Creating a business template based policy.
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Click Continue.
The Policy Details page is displayed.
- Click Edit to configure policy settings.
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Do one of the following actions:
- Click Save to save the changes locally.
- Click Save and Publish to save and deploy the policy to devices.