How To Disable Advanced Security Xfinity?
Advanced Security is a feature that Xfinity offers as a way to safeguard your home network as well as the devices that you have connected to this network, against threats such as malware, viruses, or hackers. Security protection is helpful, but it might be better to turn off Advanced Security for a while depending on if it interferes with access to websites or apps and devices. Thankfully, the process of disabling Advanced Security is as simple as following a few steps on your own using an Xfinity subscription.
Advanced Security has the following functions:
Advanced Security is one of the many features within the Xfinity xFi digital protector and once activated it constantly guards your home network against malicious traffic and threats. Some key things Advanced Security does:
- Blocks malicious websites: Blocks any site found to be involved in transmitting malware, spyware, botnets, and phishing content. This assists in preventing the influx of infections into the network.
- Filters spam emails: It recognizes and prevents spam and hazardous messages from ever reaching your inbox.
- Strengthens network against hacking: Utilizes firewall security to scrutinize both incoming and outgoing traffic to avoid misuse of existing weaknesses.
- Isolates connected devices: When a threat is identified in one of the devices in your network, then you can block that device to avoid affecting other devices.
- Provides threat alerts: Notifies the account owner of a severe or critical threat on the network so that he can take action.
Why Disable Advanced Security?
Advanced Security is not problematic for most Xfinity users, thus creating relatively few problems for most people. However, some common reasons you may want to temporarily disable some or all of its protection include
- Accessing blocked websites: In some cases, legitimate websites are mistakenly flagged as unsafe and are therefore blocked by Advanced Security features. Disabling these tools enables the access that was previously blocked.
- Using blocked applications: By default, Advanced Security may also restrict access to certain applications and services that are considered high risk. Disabling shields make them functional again.
- Resolving device connectivity issues: Rarely, Advanced Security can contribute to the devices not maintaining a consistent connection to the network. This possibility is prevented when shields are turned off.
- Improving gaming connectivity: This extra monitoring and traffic filtering can very slightly add to the latency of the system. Players might wish to disable multiple layers of protection to get a better connection.
- Working around misidentified threats: In case of Advanced Security produces a false alarm indicating a threat is on your network, you can simply turn it off as long as it is not fully removed from the affected device.
How to Disable Advanced Security on Xfinity
It is very easy to turn off Advanced Security on Xfinity since it only takes a few seconds to do and it can either be turned on or off. Here are the step-by-step instructions:Here are the step-by-step instructions:
1. You need to sign in to your Xfinity account through the Xfinity website or the Xfinity app.
2. From the list of available options, select the option that is labeled “Internet” which can be found under the My Services tab.
3. Next under the menu on the left side select “xfi Advanced Security”.
4. On this page you will see toggles enabling or disabling the different Advanced Security tools, including, you will see toggles enabling or disabling the different Advanced Security tools, including:
- Open Blocked and Dangerous Website
- Prevent Unsafe Applications
- Prevent Malicious Emails
- Extra Network Protection
5. To completely disable Advanced Security, you have to turn off all four layers of protection. Or you can choose to disable certain layers which might help solve your problem temporarily.
6. Modem updates can be made directly from the user interface with no need to reboot the modem once changes are saved. All the protections that have been turned off can be turned on again at any given time.
On the screen, a message will appear claiming that it is not safe to completely disable Advanced Security when configuring your network, according to Xfinity. Nevertheless, you can continue to shut down some or all protections as needed without any problem.
Other Measures That Can Be Taken to Further Enhance Advanced Security
Beyond fully enabling or disabling Advanced Security, the xFi app and account portal provide additional ways to customize security settings
- Use time slots at which some of the protections are temporarily disabled and then enabled again. For instance, security may be disabled from 6 pm to 11 pm daily in case of online gaming.
- See all the detailed activity logs where Advanced Security tools have recorded events such as blocked sites, spam emails prevented, malware detected, etc.
- Manage the devices in the Advanced Security, that is, add or remove the devices for monitoring. For instance, you can exclude an IoT device that may not require security scanning.
- Design user account creation and management and where it is possible to set certain security protocols every time a specific user connects to the WiFi network.
Therefore, if you discover that Advanced Security in Xfinity is interfering with legitimate network activity or causing functionality problems, you can quickly turn off protections completely or by layer. Simply go to your Xfinity account, then to the Advanced Security tab where, by simply switching various tools on and off, you should be able to fix various issues.
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