{"id":7936,"date":"2026-10-13T09:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=support_article&p=7936"},"modified":"2026-10-13T09:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:43:11","slug":"does-elements-web-content-control-feature-have-an-alert-only-or-report-only-mode","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/support-articles\/does-elements-web-content-control-feature-have-an-alert-only-or-report-only-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Elements Web Content Control feature have an alert only or report only mode?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue:<\/h3>\n

Does Elements Endpoint Protection Web Content Control feature have an alert only or report only mode? When Block<\/strong> is disabled for a category and only Alert<\/strong> is enabled, an alert is not sent to the Security Events <\/strong>page when a user visits a website belonging to that Web Content Control category.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Resolution:<\/h3>\n

Elements Endpoint Protection Web Content Control feature does not have an "Alert only" or "Report only" -mode<\/p>\n

What you are seeing is the expected behaviour of Web Content Control in WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection: a security event is only generated when access to a category is actually blocked. When a category has Alert turned on but Disallowed (block) turned off, the site is allowed and no security event or device notification is created.<\/p>\n

In practice the supported combinations are therefore Block only (Disallowed on, Alert off) and Block with Alert (Disallowed on, Alert on). An alert-only or monitoring mode for discovering which categories are being accessed without blocking them is not currently available.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you would like to assess the impact before enforcing a category across the environment, one option is to apply a profile with Disallowed and Alert enabled to a small pilot group of devices and review the resulting Web Content Control security events before rolling it out more widely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does Elements Endpoint Protection Web Content Control feature have an alert only or report only mode? When Block is disabled for a category and only Alert is enabled, an alert is not sent to the Security Events page when a user visits a website belonging to that category. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-7936","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000015638","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-13 06:43:11","import_hash":"2c0e888a3df07308febb168eaafc10644731f18e","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/7936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=7936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}