Unable to assign "McAfee Default" as the DLP policy

Technical Articles ID: KB92162
Last Modified: 12/22/2021

Environment

McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint 11.x

For supported environments, see KB68147 - Supported platforms for Data Loss Prevention Endpoint.

Problem

When you install DLP Endpoint on a new system, you observe the following:

DLP fails to activate
No DLP rules are applied

The McAfee Default policy was assigned to the DLP-managed system through the ePO console, and you are unable to change the McAfee Default policy assignments.

Cause

The McAfee Default policy is a read-only policy template. The proper use is to duplicate the McAfee Default policy and then customize it.

The DLP policy also requires a Rule set to be present to allow DLP-managed systems to activate. But, the McAfee Default policy does not contain any rule sets, because it is read only. So, the default policy can't be assigned to a DLP system.

Solution

To resolve this issue:

Create a custom DLP policy by duplicating the McAfee Default policy.
Create the rule set needed.
Assign it to a system or to its subgroup.

The DLP-managed system is now activated.

Affected Products

Data Loss Prevention Endpoint 11.6.x
Data Loss Prevention Endpoint 11.4.x (EOL)

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