Policies

Policies specify various settings that affect request handling. Each request is handled according to a policy, which is identified by the applicable client and server records.

Policies can be set up in a hierarchy, where a policy inherits attributes from a parent policy, but applies some modifications for a slightly different scenario. At the top of that hierarchy is a given parent or base policy, which does not inherit any attributes from any other policy, i.e. a so-called parentless policy. That topmost policy is not necessarily the default base policy specified in OneSpan Authentication Server Appliance, i.e. Base Policy.

The Administration Web Interface (see Administration Web Interface) allows the following operations:

• Editing policies
• Copying policies
• Deleting policies