About Sensors and Policy Assignments

Each sensor is assigned a policy that determines what policy rules apply to the sensor.

Important: Asset Groups is available to Carbon Black Cloud customers on 27 November 2023. Carbon Black recommends that you upgrade from Sensor Groups to Asset Groups as soon as it is operationally feasible for your organization. Sensor Groups will be phased out by 01 December 2024. See Asset Groups and Sensor Groups in the User Guide.

By default, each new sensor is initially assigned the Standard policy unless one of the following conditions applies:

• You define an alternate policy during a command line installation.
• You have previously created Asset Groups, the installed sensor matches an Asset Group’s criteria, and the target policy is not the Standard policy. All the sensors in the Asset Group receive an automatic assignment to a policy, which is based on the metadata that is associated with the sensor and the criteria that you define.
• You have previously created Sensor Groups, the installed sensor matches a Sensor Group’s criteria, and the target policy is not the Standard policy. All the sensors in the Sensor Group receive an automatic assignment to a policy, which is based on the metadata that is associated with the sensor and the criteria that you define.

  Sensor Groups require the following sensor versions:

  • Windows sensors v3.1+
  • macOS sensors v3.2 +
  • Linux sensors v2.5 +

Note: Policy assignments do not apply to the Carbon Black Cloud Audit and Remediation standalone product.