Creating a business template based policy

MaaS360® provides a set of predefined policy templates that are based on common business use cases.

About this task

When you create a policy, you can select an existing business use case as a base policy. MaaS360 provides predefined (canned) templates for various business use cases such as BYOD management or Privacy Regulations laws.

Note: The business templates are available for Android MDM, iOS MDM, Windows MDM, and WorkPlace Persona policies only.

Procedure

  1. From the IBM® MaaS360 Portal Home page, select Security > Policies.
  2. Click Add Policy.
    The Add Policy page is displayed.
  3. Provide a name, type, description, and then select Business Templates based Policy in the Start From field.
  4. Click Continue.
    The policy settings that are based on the selected business use case template are displayed:
    Android MDM iOS MDM Windows MDM WorkPlace Persona
    • Management type
      • BYOD
      • Corporate owned
      • Kiosk (purpose driven)
    • Security
      • Basic
      • Intermediate
      • High Security
    • Compliance
      • CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services)
      • Privacy Regulations
      • HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
    • Management type
      • BYOD
      • Corporate owned
      • Kiosk (purpose driven)
    • Security
      • Basic
      • Intermediate
      • High Security
    • Compliance
      • CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services)
      • Privacy Regulations
      • HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
      • STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guide)
    		 Compliance
    • AE8 (Australian Essential Eight)
    • PCI (Payment Card Industry)
    • HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
    • Management type
      • BYOD
      • Corporate owned
      • Kiosk (purpose driven)
    • Security
      • Basic
      • Intermediate
      • High Security
    • Compliance
      • Privacy Regulations
      • HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
  5. Click Edit to modify the policy based on your requirements.
  6. Click Save and Publish to publish the policy to the selected devices.
    The MaaS360 policy recommendation engine suggests community usage statistics (by percentage) in the Publish window.
  7. Optional: Click Apply to apply the policy recommendations.
    publish community policy
  8. Click Continue to publish the policy.
    The policy is successfully applied to devices.