# Policy Configuration Index

Securing a Virtual Service using Policies
You can specify a policy to enforce security between a client and the Enterprise Gateway (for example, a WS-Security policy or a Windows Common Foundation policy).
Configuring Security Policies from WSDL Files
The Enterprise Gateway can auto-generate policies based on WS-Policy assertions contained in a WSDL file.
Configuring Policies Manually
This topic describes how to manually build policies from the ground up.
Configuring Global Policies
This topic describes how to configure policies that apply globally in the Enterprise Gateway configuration, and which can be applied to multiple Web services.