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Abstraction level of Policy-based network security management (3/4)

Policy-based management does imply

High-level view of cooperative objects in unordered graph in an intuitive Policy Definition Tool

Meta-policies that apply globally across the organization

Centralized and decentralized policy definition

Authentication and logging of policy rules

Design only enforceable policy

No conflict detection between incompatible configurations

Audit mecanisms to review and verify the policy

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