{"id":8043,"date":"2026-10-17T20:22:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=8043"},"modified":"2026-10-17T20:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:22:42","slug":"what-are-the-recommended-settings-or-best-practices-for-elements-endpoint-protection-profile-settings","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/support-articles\/what-are-the-recommended-settings-or-best-practices-for-elements-endpoint-protection-profile-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the recommended settings or best practices for Elements Endpoint Protection profile settings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>What are the recommended settings or best practices for Elements Endpoint Protection profile settings?\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>We consider the default Elements profiles to be the recommended or best practice settings for Elements Endpoint Protection for Computers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a basic rule of thumb; WithSecure default settings are mainly the best practice settings for the product, and further configuration needs to be done on case by case basis depending on your needs.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid performance issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep Security Cloud enabled<\/li>\n<li>Avoid Application Control rules that have SHA-1 as a condition. If SHA-1 is used, combine it with another condition.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the recommended settings or best practices for Elements Endpoint Protection profile settings?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-8043","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000006016","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-17 17:22:42","import_hash":"f6fd3e2bc5e64f709642723f05771a01fc3b7662","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\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/8043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=8043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}