Cloud workload policies and rules

Cloud workload policies and rules help you identify, manage, and prevent security violations in cloud workloads.

Rules define the criteria that identify a violation. Policies apply rules to a scope and define the response.

Get started

1. Learn how policies and rules work together.
2. Review cloud workload policies.
3. Review cloud workload rules.

Manage policies

Use policies to define the scope, evaluation stage, and action for security violations.

• Explore the available types of cloud workload policies.
• Learn how to create a cloud workload policy.
• Manage policies from the Cloud workload policies page.

Manage rules

Use rules to define the conditions that detect security violations.

• Review default (pre-defined) rules.
• Learn about custom (user-defined) rules.
• Manage rules from the Cloud workload rules page.