A BaCon policy is a collection of one or more BaCon rules.
Policies help network administrators to manage a group of
related rules. For instance, users may group rules associated
with specific users into one policy, or rules associated with the
same network interface into another policy. BaCon allows
users to manage create reports on a selected policy in forms of
graphs and spreadsheet files. Each BaCon policy has
following attributes: policy name*, policy description, and one
or more BaCon rules*. For example, a user may create a
‘student policy’ to encompass a rule for shaping FTP, a rule
for blocking a virus-infected PC, and a rule for shaping all
outgoing traffic.