Policies are applied to any console Directory tree node by inheritance or assignment. Inheritance determines whether the policy settings for any node are taken from its parent. By default, inheritance is enabled throughout the Directory. You can break inheritance by direct policy assignment. Host Intrusion Prevention, as managed by ePolicy Orchestrator, enables you to create policies and assign them without regard to inheritance. When you break this inheritance by assigning a new policy anywhere in the Directory, all child nodes inherit the new policy.