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title: Settings - Protection
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

You can access these settings in the **Settings** application under the **Security & Membership** -> **Protection** category.

| General                                        |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Display account lock information message       | Indicates if user friendly information about account lock should be displayed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| Enable Autocomplete                            | If true [Autocomplete](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-users/user-registration-and-authentication/configuring-autocomplete-for-user-names.md) for user name text box in sign-in form is enabled.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| reCAPTCHA v2                                   |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Site key (reCAPTCHA v2)                        | The reCAPTCHA v2 site API key for the site where you want to use reCAPTCHA.<br>Obtain the API keys from <https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin>.<br>For more information, learn about the _reCAPTCHA_ [form component](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/form-builder-development/reference-system-form-components.md).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Secret key (reCAPTCHA v2)                      | The reCAPTCHA v2 secret API key for the site where you want to use reCAPTCHA.<br>Obtain the API keys from <https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin>.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| reCAPTCHA v3                                   |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Site key (reCAPTCHA v3)                        | The reCAPTCHA v3 site API key for the site where you want to use reCAPTCHA.<br>Obtain the API keys from <https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin>.<br>For more information, learn about the _reCAPTCHA_ [form component](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/form-builder-development/reference-system-form-components.md).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Secret key (reCAPTCHA v3)                      | The reCAPTCHA v3 secret API key for the site where you want to use reCAPTCHA.<br>Obtain the API keys from <https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin>.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Score threshold (reCAPTCHA v3)                 | reCAPTCHA v3 returns a score for every request between 0.0 (very likely a bot) and 1.0 (very likely a good interaction). This threshold determines the score that must be reached for the reCAPTCHA validation to be successful. Set a higher value if you have issues with spam or bots, and a lower value if you wish to simplify accessibility for users.<br>You can override the score threshold setting when adding the [reCAPTCHA component](https://docs.kentico.com/13/developing-websites/form-builder-development/reference-system-form-components.md) to individual forms.<br>**Note**: If the validation fails for a user, there are no further challenges and form submission is not possible. In these cases, users can attempt to refresh the page again. |
| Invalid sign-in attempts (Administration only) |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Maximum invalid sign-in attempts               | Maximum invalid sign-in attempts before the user account is locked. If set to _0_, [invalid sign-in attempts](https://docs.kentico.com/13/securing-websites/designing-secure-websites/securing-user-accounts-and-passwords/invalid-sign-in-attempts.md) functionality is disabled.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Send unlock account email                      | Indicates if an account unlock email is sent when a user account is locked due to reaching the maximum invalid sign-in attempts.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Unlock user account path                       | Path to custom page for unlocking user account (if not set, system page \~/CMSModules/Membership/CMSPages/UnlockUserAccount.aspx will be used).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Screen lock                                    |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Enable screen lock                             | Enables or disables [screen lock](https://docs.kentico.com/13/securing-websites/designing-secure-websites/securing-and-protecting-the-system/screen-locking.md) feature, which locks the part of the browser with the Xperience administration interface.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Lock interval (minutes)                        | Time (in minutes) that has to pass before the screen is locked. This value has to be greater than 0 and lower than session timeout.<br>Session timeout is by default 20 minutes for ASP.NET WebForms applications. To change the timeout interval, set the timeout property on the _sessionState_ element in your application's _web.config_ file. See the [session state documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dotnet/netframework-2.0/h6bb9cz9\(v=vs.80\)?redirectedfrom=MSDN) for more information.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Warning interval (seconds)                     | Warning period (in seconds). Warning with countdown is shown for this number of seconds before the screen is locked.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
