{"id":4712,"date":"2026-10-01T14:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4712"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:51:28","slug":"is-there-an-option-in-the-elements-profile-to-disable-security-events-for-the-denied-sites","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/is-there-an-option-in-the-elements-profile-to-disable-security-events-for-the-denied-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there an option in the Elements profile to disable security events for the Denied sites?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>We have Web Content Control enabled and we have manually blocked websites with the &quot;denied sites&quot; feature. We receive a lot of alerts on the Security Events page in the Elements Security Center portal of the following type &quot;<strong><em>Webpage was blocked due to domain name being blocked<\/em><\/strong>&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Is there an option to turn off sending of security events when a website (URL address) has been blocked by either the Web Content Control feature or if the URL has been added to the<strong> Denied sites<\/strong> list?<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>Yes, you can disable sending of security alerts when either Web Content Control has blocked a website due to a disallowed category or if the website is listed on the <strong>Denied sites <\/strong>list in the Elements profile.<\/p>\n<p>Steps to disable sending of security alerts for Web Content Control blocks:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the Elements Security Center portal<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to the <strong>Security Configurations &gt; Profiles <\/strong>page<\/li>\n<li>Click on the profile that is in use on the devices<\/li>\n<li>Go to the <strong>Browsing Protection <\/strong>settings page<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to the<strong> Web content control <\/strong>section<\/li>\n<li>Disable the <strong>Alert <\/strong>for each category you do not want to receive an alert from\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Save profile<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Steps to disable sending of alert when a website has been blocked due to it being on the <strong>Denied sites <\/strong>list:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the Elements Security Center portal<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to the <strong>Security Configurations &gt; Profiles <\/strong>page<\/li>\n<li>Click on the profile that is in use on the devices<\/li>\n<li>Go to the <strong>Browsing Protection <\/strong>settings page<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to the <strong>Web site exceptions <\/strong>section<\/li>\n<li>Disable <strong>Send security event about access to denied site<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Save profile<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We receive a lot of alerts in the Security Events of the following type &#8221; Webpage was blocked due to domain name being blocked &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is there an option to turn off security events for the Denied sites?<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-4712","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000004903","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-01 11:51:28","import_hash":"9d0c5e6c18ed7ddfa7e5852429c255a503a2d31f","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\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}