diff --git a/pkg/apis/policy/v1alpha1/types_validation.go b/pkg/apis/policy/v1alpha1/types_validation.go
index 32872f90bf..24d8b37a15 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/policy/v1alpha1/types_validation.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/policy/v1alpha1/types_validation.go
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package v1alpha1
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"regexp"
 
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 )
@@ -66,13 +65,6 @@ func (pr *PolicyResource) Validate() error {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if pr.Name != nil {
-		// make non-regexp a regexp to match exactly to the given name
-		if _, err := regexp.Compile(*pr.Name); err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("invalied regex, err: %v", err)
-		}
-	}
-
 	return nil
 }
 
diff --git a/webhooks/admission.go b/webhooks/admission.go
index b81eb3210f..9dcca827ef 100644
--- a/webhooks/admission.go
+++ b/webhooks/admission.go
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 package webhooks
 
 import (
-	"regexp"
-
+	"github.com/minio/minio/pkg/wildcard"
 	types "github.com/nirmata/kube-policy/pkg/apis/policy/v1alpha1"
 	"k8s.io/api/admission/v1beta1"
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
@@ -62,21 +61,9 @@ func IsRuleApplicableToResource(kind string, resourceRaw []byte, policyResource
 
 		if policyResource.Name != nil {
 
-			policyResourceName, isRegex := parseRegexPolicyResourceName(*policyResource.Name)
-
-			// if no regex used, check if names are matched, return directly
-			if !isRegex && policyResourceName != name {
+			if !wildcard.Match(*policyResource.Name, name) {
 				return false, nil
 			}
-
-			// validation of regex is peformed when validating the policyResource
-			// refer to policyResource.Validate()
-			if isRegex {
-				match, _ := regexp.MatchString(policyResourceName, name)
-				if !match {
-					return false, nil
-				}
-			}
 		}
 
 		if policyResource.Selector != nil {