Setting security policies for an identity

You can set security policies for an identity that help you ensure the authentication of the people you communicate with using Groove. For example, you can enforce policies that signal Groove to warn you before you communicate with people who don't have the required authentication, or that simply disallow communication in this case.

Note: Your Groove administrator may have already set security policies for your identity, and which may prevent you from changing the security policies as described below.

To set security policies for an identity, do the following:

Select Options - Preferences, and click the Identities tab.
From the Identity: drop-down menu, select the identity for which you want to change security policies.
Click More - Security Policies....

Select a security policy setting and click OK.

The table below describes the security policy options:

Security policy	Result
No warnings or restrictions when communicating with any contacts.	Groove issues no warnings or restrictions regardless of your contacts' authentication status.
Warn before communicating with contacts that have been neither administrator-certified nor manually authenticated by you.	Groove issues a warning before you communicate with any contact who does not satisfy the authentication requirements. The warning appears in the Authenticate dialog box which provides recommendations and instructions for authenticating the contact.
Only allow communications with administrator-certified contacts.	Groove prohibits communication with any contact who does satisfy the authentication requirements. In this case, all contacts you interact with must be certified by a Groove administrator.