Method of customizing a standardized IT policy

摘要

A system and method are described herein for standardizing an IT policy that is used to configure devices operating on a network. An IT policy can be generated that applies to a group of users or to one or more special users without having to define and store a new IT policy for each special user. This can be achieved by specifying global and per-user IT policy rules and merging these rules as needed to produce IT policy data.

主权项

1. A method of providing a policy to configure devices associated with a group of users, the policy being customizable on a per-user basis and constituting a set of rules that limit functionality of at least one application residing on the devices, the method comprising:
storing policy rules that are applicable to all users within the group of users; responsive to detecting a change in the policy rules, determining whether there exists at least one user within the group of users for which per-user policy rules are stored, the per-user policy rules being applicable to the at least one user and set separately from the policy rules; and in the event that the at least one user exists:
generating user policy data for the at least one user by merging the policy rules and the per-user policy rules;determining whether a difference exists between the user policy data and stored last policy data that was previously sent to a device associated with the at least one user; andin the event that the difference exists, sending the user policy data to the device for limiting the functionality of the at least one application.