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Policy Inheritance

Most enterprises need many different policies to support the diverse needs of users. For example, different departments and various levels of management might each require their own, customized policy. To streamline policy administration, CA DLP uses automatic policy inheritance. This enables you to quickly administer large numbers of users.

Policy inheritance operates in two dimensions. First, attributes are inherited within a policy branch. Second, there is inheritance from parent to child policies.