Emergency Mitigation

Emergency mitigation provides defense features to have a quick countermeasure towards ongoing threats or threats under certain business scenarios — break-glass switches you flip during an incident and turn off once it passes. Enable each for the selected website(s) and Save.

Switch	What it does
Kill Switch	One-stop switch to block all requests to the website.
Read-Only Website	Only GET and HEAD requests may visit; other methods get a 400. Good for freezing a site during an attack while keeping it readable.
Static Website	Only requests to static HTML pages and static files are allowed; everything else gets a 400. Shed dynamic/origin load while serving cached static content.

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These switches are deliberately aggressive and will break normal traffic (logins, forms, APIs). Turn them on only during an incident, scope them to the affected website(s), and turn them back off afterwards.

For rule-based (rather than break-glass) controls, see Programmable Mitigation and Bot Management.